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Category Archives: Humor
Who’s Afraid of the Idiots in Government?
So the new home health aide hours that Onondaga County has authorized—“effective immediately,” which was on Monday, August 20—are to go on the call-out list, which consists of about eight agencies that have contracted to serve poor people. John, the … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, American medical industry, disability, disability rights, Government Services, Health Care, Humor, Medicaid, Medical care, Poverty, Power, Values
Tagged Cathy Dutton, diagnosis, disability, disability rights, executive dysfunction, Freedom, Governance, government, Health, health care, home health aide, John Terry, Long Term Care Resource Center, Medicaid, Office of Aging, Onondaga County New York, patients, poverty, problem solving, skilled nursing, values, VESID
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What’s the Point?
So what is going to happen? I give that some thought. First, I don’t want Nurse Sharon to touch me, so I would have to get a new home health care agency and a new nurse. But I also don’t … Continue reading
Posted in American medical industry, Death, drugs, God, Humor, Medical care, Pharmaceuticals, physician, Sex, Spirituality, Values
Tagged antidepressants, BiPAP, catheter, Conditions and Diseases, CPAP, death, disability, doctors, drugs, end stage renal disease, end-of-life, GFR, glomerular filtration rate, God, immune system, Medicine, Onondaga County New York, patients, pharmaceuticals, pheromones, Physician, psychiatric medications, relationships, sleep, Terry Schiavo, values
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Great Aunt Mildred and the MRI
A few years ago I needed an MRI—I no longer remember why. I’d had open MRIs but this one had to be a closed MRI and my psychologist and I weren’t entirely sure if I could handle it. He—Dr. Paul … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Medical care
Tagged conscious, Dr. Paul M. Cohen, Hope Family Reunion, Hypnotherapy, Mary Hope, MRI, Patient, psychologist, relationships, Roy Hope, unconscious
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Loving Others
What were the best moments of your life? My last glucose was 544, so I thought this was a good time to collect the best moments of my life. The most recent was in April at the Empathic Therapy Conference. … Continue reading
Posted in God, Health Care, Humor, Mental Illness & Health, Nature, Sex, Spirituality, Values
Tagged friend, gardening, God, happiness, Health, joy, lover, Loving, mental health, mother, nature, Peace, relationships, sex, spring, values
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SURVIVING PSYCHIATRY: A User’s Manual
SURVIVING PSYCHIATRY: A User’s Manual by Anne C Woodlen Now for sale to you, this 60-page collection of 23 essays recently sold out at Dr. Peter Breggin’s Empathic Therapy Conference. “The great jazz bassist Ron Carter once described good jazz … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, American medical industry, Death, Depression, disability, disability rights, drugs, Fraud, God, Government Services, Health Care, Holistic, Housing, Humor, Inpatient psychiatry, Medicaid, Medical care, Medicare, Mental Illness & Health, Pharmaceuticals, physician, Poverty, Power, power wheelchairs, Powerlessness, Sex, Spirituality, Values
Tagged antidepressants, Benjamine Rush Center, bipolar, Conditions and Diseases, CPEP, death, depression, diagnosis, disability, doctors, drugs, Emergency psychiatry, end-of-life, God, Health, health care, Hutchings Psychiatric Center, Lorazepam, Medicaid, Medicare, Medicine, mental disorder, mental hospital, mental illness, Onondaga County New York, Patient, patients, Peter Breggin, pharmaceuticals, Physician, Post-Standard, poverty, power, problem solving, psychiatric disorders, Psychiatrist, Psychiatry, reform, relationships, Richard Gottlieb, Sleep apnea, Social work, St. Joseph's Hospital, Surviving Psychiatry, values
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We Need Your Help
Yesterday the Veterans Administration Hospital discharged Dr. Michael Gregory, who has no home. Dr. Gregory, 73, has had seven strokes. He has an ostomy, diabetes, high blood pressure, MRSA, and cancer on his ear. He has reason to be concerned … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, American medical industry, Death, Depression, disability, disability rights, drugs, Fraud, God, Government Services, Health Care, Holistic, Housing, Humor, Inpatient psychiatry, Medicaid, Medical care, Medicare, Mental Illness & Health, Nature, Pharmaceuticals, physician, Poverty, Power, power wheelchairs, Powerlessness, Recipes, Sex, Spirituality, Uncategorized, Values
Tagged assisted living, Conditions and Diseases, DAV, David Carr, David Sutkowy, death, democracy, Dept. of Social Services, diagnosis, disability, doctors, drugs, DSS, Governance, Gregory, Health, health care, homeless vet, HUD, Medicaid, Medicare, Medicine, mental disorder, mental health, mental illness, Onondaga County New York, patients, Post-Standard, poverty, power, problem solving, Rescue Mission, Ruby Tuesday, Rural Metro, Social work, Steven Armendarez, VA Hospital, values, Welfare
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It’s To Laugh
I’m trying to place a ride order with Centro’s Call-a-Bus. I tell the call-taker that my destination is LeMoyne College, Lot C, the building “on the far left.” Selena replies, “Is that in the middle?” And they wonder why people with … Continue reading
LMAO
Centro bus company’s paratransit subsidiary, Call-a-Bus, has two published telephone numbers. One, 442-3420, is for ride scheduling and confirming; the other, 442-3434, is for ride cancellations. On weekends there often is only one person answering both lines. Last weekend I needed … Continue reading
Pilot to Tower
Here are some conversations that airline passengers normally will never hear. The following are accounts of actual exchanges between airline pilots and control towers around the world. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tower: “Delta 351, you have traffic at 10 o’clock, 6 miles!” Delta … Continue reading
