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Category Archives: Powerlessness
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“I have spent the past twelve days in St. Joseph’s Hospital on inpatient psychiatry (Unit 3-6) with Dr. Roger Levine attending. I am now going to file complaints with the New York State Dept. of Health, NYS Office of Mental Health, … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, American medical industry, Death, Depression, disability, disability rights, drugs, God, Government Services, Inpatient psychiatry, Medicaid, Medical care, Medicare, Mental Illness & Health, Pharmaceuticals, physician, Poverty, Power, Powerlessness, Spirituality, Values
Tagged antidepressants, Conditions and Diseases, death, depression, disability rights, doctors, drugs, end-of-life, God, health care, Medicaid, Medicare, mental disorder, mental health, mental illness, Onondaga County New York, patients, pharmaceuticals, Physician, poverty, power, psychiatric disorders, Psychiatrist, roger levine, St. Joseph's Hospital, values
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From Upstate Medical Center to Frank Kobliski
Taxpayer’s alert: Michael Abbot, auditor for the State University of New York, states that when he got a complaint that Upstate Medical Center’s $50 million Institute for Human Performance had been sitting two-thirds empty since its construction in 2000, he … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, American medical industry, disability, disability rights, Fraud, Government Services, Onondaga County, Poverty, Power, power wheelchairs, Powerlessness, Transportation
Tagged Betty Petrie, Call-a-Bus, Central New York Regional Transportation Authority, Centro, citizen, CNYRTA, disability, Federal Transit Administration, Frank Kobliski, FTA, Institute for Human Performance, Linda McKeown, Michael Abbot, OCR, Office of Civil Rights, SUNY auditor, transportation, Upstate Medical Center
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Calling Washington
What Sally Johnston did was create a program whereby the client, i.e., the competent citizen, would hire, train, schedule and supervise the aide. The program would be embedded in an Independent Living Organization, such as ARISE, which would do the … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, disability, disability rights, God, Government Services, Poverty, Power, power wheelchairs, Powerlessness, Transportation
Tagged advocacy, ARISE, Beata Karpinska, Call-a-Bus, CDPAP, Centro, citizen, consumer directed personal assistant program, Enable, Frank Kobliski, Linda McKeown, paratransit, Sally Johnston, Sara Wall Bollinger, success, transportation
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From Politics to Sally Johnston
This brings us to the question of politics. According to Wikipedia, “Politics (from Greek politikos ‘of, for, or relating to citizens’) is the art or science of influencing people on a civic, or individual level, when there are more than 2 people … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, disability, disability rights, God, Government Services, Power, power wheelchairs, Powerlessness
Tagged advocacy, ARISE, Beata Karpinska, Call-a-Bus, Centro, David Knight, politics, Sally Johnston, Tom McKeown
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Annie Enters Politics
So Peter Cahan and I sat in the office of Beata Karpinska, ARISE’s director of advocacy, and had this conference call with attorney David Knight in the Federal Transit Administration’s Office of Civil Rights. I told David story after story of … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, disability, disability rights, God, Government Services, Power, power wheelchairs, Powerlessness, Transportation, Values
Tagged ADA, advocacy, Americans with Disabilities Act, ARISE, Beata Karpinska, Call-a-Bus, Centro, David Knight, Federal Transit Administration, FTA, God, governing, government, Linda McKeown, OCR, Office of Civil Rights, Peter Cahan, politics
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From God to Linda McKeown–There’s a Trip
How do I know that God’s got my back? The first and biggest confirmation of this came about three years after I was diagnosed with nephrogenic diabetes insipidus, which is a rare form of kidney damage that is caused by bad doctors … Continue reading
Posted in Government Services, Values, Spirituality, Power, disability, disability rights, power wheelchairs, advocacy, activism, God, Powerlessness, Pharmaceuticals, Poverty, physician, Onondaga County, Transportation
Tagged lithium, power, God, paratransit, powerlessness, Centro, Call-a-Bus, transportation, FTA, Office of Civil Rights, power wheelchair, Federal Transit Administration, citizen, complaints, Linda McKeown, OCR, CAB, Bus, Jenifer Rich, Peter Cahan
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On Being a Bond-Servant
So Rev. Craig Schaub and I prayed and then we, along with my psychologist, Dr. Paul Cohen, went up to see the hospital’s medical director, whose name is not worthy of repeating. His job was to catch the flak, as … Continue reading
Congress, God and Antidepressants
I write about how to be an effective citizen in the United States. Where’s God in all of that? Congress has passed some Godly acts, including Social Security, Medicare and the Americans with Disabilities Act. These are things that say “I … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, Depression, drugs, God, Government Services, Medical care, Medicare, Mental Illness & Health, Pharmaceuticals, physician, Power, Powerlessness, Spirituality, Values
Tagged antidepressants, citizen, Congress, Dr. Peter Breggin, God, Holy Bible, humility, love, medication spellbinding, neurotheology, psychiatric patient, religion, Rev. Craig Schaub
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The Area Supervisor
I don’t remember meeting Leslie. I’ve lived in “senior housing”—HUD-subsidized housing for people who are poor, disabled and/or old—for twenty-two years and the main thing it’s taught me is to not have anything to do with my neighbors. I calculate … Continue reading
Posted in Values, Power, disability, disability rights, Powerlessness, Housing, Poverty
Tagged disability, poverty, poor people, HUD, Housing, subsidized housing, old people, Leslie, area supervisor, sick people, senior housing, neighbors, cross-dresser
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Some of Us Don’t Even Have Feet
Letter to the Editor, Post-Standard (continued) Do you know who comes to the [Public Transportation Advisory Committee] meeting? Linda McKeown, director of Call-a-Bus. Fifteen disabled people sit there and try to make some sense out of the system, and Linda … Continue reading
Posted in Government Services, Values, Power, disability, disability rights, power wheelchairs, advocacy, activism, Powerlessness, Poverty, Onondaga County, Transportation
Tagged disability, Americans with Disabilities Act, paratransit, Centro, Call-a-Bus, transportation, ADA, Post-Standard, Linda McKeown
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