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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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MY DAY or It’s About the Immune System, Stupid
So I dragged myself out of bed after a disrupted night’s sleep and—tired all to pieces—I got a glass of orange juice, which sent me into a sneezing fit, which—along with the extreme fatigue, not to mention the shortness of … Continue reading
Posted in American medical industry, Depression, drugs, Health Care, Holistic, Medical care, Mental Illness & Health, Pharmaceuticals, physician
Tagged Call-a-Bus, Conditions and Diseases, depression, diagnosis, doctors, drugs, health care, Medicine, mental disorder, patients, pharmaceuticals, Physician, Psychiatrist
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Ethical Issues Related to Treatment Induced Harm (Part I)
Or: Every resource available to get off psych meds By Ron Unger on September 8, 2012 Many people come into the mental health system often after being betrayed and traumatized in a number of ways: too often, the mental health system … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, American medical industry, Depression, drugs, Health Care, Inpatient psychiatry, Medical care, Mental Illness & Health, Pharmaceuticals
Tagged antidepressants, Conditions and Diseases, depression, diagnosis, doctors, drugs, Medicine, mental disorder, mental health, mental illness, patients, pharmaceuticals, Physician, psychiatric disorders, Psychiatrist
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Aides to the Bible
Do you want the good news or the bad news first? Let’s start with the bad news, get it over with, and move on. Tuesday the home health care agency sent Sonya, supposed to be here from 8:00 a.m. to … Continue reading
Posted in Death, God, Government Services, Health Care, Medical care, Spirituality, Values
Tagged aides, Bible, CMS, coffee, Conditions and Diseases, death, disability, end-of-life, health care, Holy Bible, home health care, Iroquois, Loretto, Nursing home, One Year Bible, Onondaga County New York, Park Central, Patient, Rosewood, St. Camillus, strangers, Sunnyside, values, Van Duyn
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The Only Option
This is the iced tea I’ve been drinking all my life and Hospice plans to take it away from me. What Hospice will do is discontinue Amelia, who knows how I like my iced tea, and replace her with their … Continue reading
Posted in American medical industry, Death, Government Services, Health Care, Medical care, physician, Poverty, Values
Tagged Amelia, CDPAP, Conditions and Diseases, consumer directed personal assistant program, death, doctors, Enable, end-of-life, family, Francis House, health care, home health aide, Hospice, Medicaid, Medicare, Patient, poverty, Sister Ida, suicide, values
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It’s About the Iced Tea
I do hope, dear reader, that you understand that I’m not writing these blogs to draw attention to myself. The goal is to inform you about end-of-life issues: how do you decide when your life is over? What do you … Continue reading
Posted in Death, disability, Medical care, physician, Poverty, Values
Tagged Amelia, Conditions and Diseases, death, disability, doctors, drugs, end-of-life, family, God, Hospice, iced tea, Medicine, Onondaga County New York, patients, Physician, poverty, quality of life, values
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About That “Free” Health Care
Believe me, folks, you do not want to be poor and sick in America. I read the comments of the people who think we get “free” health care and how lucky we are and how grateful we should be and … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, American medical industry, Government Services, Health Care, Medicaid, Medical care, Poverty, Power, Values
Tagged Bobbi Dallas, Conditions and Diseases, disability, doctors, health care, home health aide, Kathy Dutton, Long Term Care, Medicaid, Office of Aging, Onondaga County New York, patients, Physician, poverty, power, values
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Part II: Ask for a Social Worker, Get a Nurse
In the afternoon of July 24, Visiting Nurse Association Director Amor Bango called again to inform me of the terms of termination—30 days for this, denial of that, nursing visit on the 30th, etc. I told her that I had been … Continue reading
Posted in activism, American medical industry, Death, disability, Government Services, Medical care, physician
Tagged Amor Bango, Conditions and Diseases, disability, doctors, Dr. James Tucker, end-of-life, Gail Carmichael, health care, Hospice, Kate Rolf, Nurse, Onondaga County New York, patients, Sharon Cwikla, social worker, Visiting Nurse Assoc., VNA
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Ask for a Social Worker, Get a Nurse
This is a complaint against: The Visiting Nurse Association at 1050 W. Genesee St., Syracuse NY 13204, for abandoning me. I am so sick that I need 24-hour care but the VNA has left me with no care at all. … Continue reading
Posted in activism, American medical industry, disability, Government Services, Medical care
Tagged Amor Bango, Conditions and Diseases, diagnosis, disability, end-of-life, Gail Carmichael, Mary Kate Rolf, Nurse, Onondaga County New York, patients, Physician, R.N., Sharon Cwikla, social worker, Visiting Nurse Assoc., VNA
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Double-Damned by Doctors
Yesterday the specially certified nurse came to do a PRI, which is the official New York State Department of Health’s Patient Review Instrument for just how crapped out you are. If you score less than 5 then you go into … Continue reading
Posted in American medical industry, Depression, disability, drugs, Inpatient psychiatry, Medical care, Mental Illness & Health, Pharmaceuticals, physician
Tagged antidepressants, assisted living, Bipolar disorder, Conditions and Diseases, depression, diagnosis, disability, doctors, drugs, Medicine, mental disorder, mental health, mental illness, Patient Review Instrument, patients, pharmaceuticals, Physician, PRI, psychiatric disorders, Psychiatrist, relationships, Rosewood Heights, skilled nursing, St. Joseph's Hospital
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