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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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The Bullies at Centro
Linda McKeown, the manager of Call-a-Bus, used bullying as her management style and she passed it down to her staff. Herewith my letter to her on October 18, 2004: Dear Linda, I have spoken with Sharon Keener, manager of … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, disability, disability rights, Onondaga County, Poverty, Power, power wheelchairs, Powerlessness, Values
Tagged ADA, bully, Call-a-Bus, Centro, disability, disability rights, Jim Bacon, Linda McKeown, Medicaid transportation, Onondaga County New York, poverty, power, values
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Skip Two Steps and Listen
What follows is a treatise on governance that is relevant to all those who govern and those who are governed. It grew out of a meeting a week ago between county officials and people with disabilities. The county had established … Continue reading
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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Curing Depression, and Ain’t Payback a Bitch?
Several hundred of you have been following my problem with the Visiting Nurse Association (VNA), so let’s use it as a teaching moment. Follow the bouncing activist to learn how to effectively complain. I wrote up the story of how the … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, American medical industry, Depression, disability, Fraud, Government Services, Health Care, Medicaid, Medical care, Power
Tagged Amor Bango, complaint, CQC, democracy, Dept. of Social Services, disability, disability rights, DOE, DOH, fair hearing, Gail Carmichael, Health, health care, home health care agency, Kate Rolf, MAS, Medicaid, Medicaid Fraud Unit, Medical Answering Service, Nurse, NYS Commission on Quality of Care, NYS Dept. of Education, NYS Dept. of Health, NYS Office of the Medicaid Inspector General, OMIG, Onondaga County Dept. of Social Services, Onondaga County New York, patients, poverty, power, problem solving, Sharon Cwikla, Visiting Nurse Association, VNA, Zachery Karmen
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Syracuse Police Bully Two Elderly Disabled Citizens
My aide and I were returning from the drugstore and coming down Crouse Avenue around 4:45 p.m., Monday 30 July 2012, when we saw police cars and a gathering of people at the corner of Crouse and Madison. My aide … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, disability, disability rights, Government Services, Medical care, power wheelchairs, Powerlessness, Values
Tagged bullies, disability, disability rights, Disabled, elderly, Fowler, HIPAA, Nursing home, patients, power, Rosewood, Syracuse Police, values
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Finding Dr. Tucker
So there it was: I was living a pointless life. The bad news was that I had no family or health, and those are the two things that people identify as the most important things in their life. The good … Continue reading
Posted in American medical industry, Depression, drugs, Inpatient psychiatry, Medical care, Mental Illness & Health, Pharmaceuticals, physician
Tagged allergist, antidepressants, blog, catheter, Conditions and Diseases, depression, diagnosis, disability, disability rights, doctors, Dr. James Tucker, drugs, executive dysfunction, family, Health, immunology, Learning disability, Medicine, mental disorder, mental illness, patients, pharmaceuticals, Physician, psychiatric disorders, rheumatologist, St. Joseph's Hospital
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The End of the Incident
In response to “The Incident” (http://annecwoodlen.wordpress.com/2012/05/28/the-incident/ ) someone called “pro police” (propolice@aol.com ) commented: “FYI, the Syracuse Community Review Board [sic] found that the Officer’s actions were appropriate in this incident. For those that do not know, the Syracuse CRB is … Continue reading
Posted in activism, disability, disability rights, Government Services, Poverty, Power, power wheelchairs, Powerlessness, Values
Tagged bully, Citizen Review Board, CRB, democracy, Dept. of Internal Affairs, disability, disability rights, Governance, mentally disabled, Office of Professional Standards, Officer Malinowski, Onondaga County New York, People, physically disabled, policies, power, problem solving, SPD, Syracuse Police Dept., training, values
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