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How You Lose Control (Part III)
See also “How You Lose Control (Part II)” http://annecwoodlen.wordpress.com/2012/10/15/how-you-lose-control-part-ii/ Sara Wall-Bollinger, Executive Director for Health Planning at Health-e-Connections, showed me what appears to be the paper copy of a power-point production. It says “Who is Health Connections? Health Advancement Collaborative … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, American medical industry, Government Services, Health Care, Medical care, physician, Power, Powerlessness, Values
Tagged EPIC, HAC-CNY, Health Advancement Collaborative, Health-e-Connections, HIPAA, medical information, Patient, patient representation, power, privacy, Sara Wall Bollinger, secrecy, SUNY Upstate Medical Center
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How You Lose Control (Part I)
Here’s a scenario: You’re working around the house and you hurt yourself. You go to the Emergency Room where they hand you a bunch of papers, which you dutifully sign (without reading). The outcome of your visit is that there’s … Continue reading
Posted in American medical industry, drugs, Government Services, Health Care, Medical care, physician, Power, Powerlessness, Values
Tagged citizen, Dr. Warren Zeigler, health care, Health-e-Connections, HIPAA, Maxwell School, Medicaid transportation, Obamacare, Regional Health Informaton Organization, RHIO, secrecy, sickness care
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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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The New-Patient Appointment (Part II)
So I’m sitting in the treatment room on my first visit to Dr. Suzanne Lamanna and the almost-an-LPN has just told me that this appointment is “just a meet-and-greet,” then she tries to take my blood pressure. She fails to manipulate the … Continue reading
Posted in American medical industry, disability, Health Care, Medical care, physician, Power
Tagged Catholic Church, Conditions and Diseases, diagnosis, disability, disability rights, doctors, Dr. Suzanne Lamanna, health care, HIPAA, Lamanna, Licensed practical nurse, Medicaid, Medicare, Medicine, meet-and-greet, Onondaga County New York, Patient, patients rights, Physician, sick sinner, St. Joseph's Hospital
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The New-Patient Appointment (Part I)
I need a new primary care physician on account of I haven’t got one. The last person who said she would cover me quit when she found out that I couldn’t take drugs. (see “The Desta Anthony’s of the World, … Continue reading
Posted in American medical industry, Fraud, Health Care, Medicaid, Medical care, Medicare, physician, Power
Tagged Conditions and Diseases, diagnosis, doctors, Dr. Suzanne Lamanna, Health, health care, HIPAA, Medicaid, Medicaid transportation, Medicare, meet-and-greet, Onondaga County New York, Patient, patients, Physician, St. Joseph's Hospital
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Musings about Music, Antidepressants, Celiac Disease, Wheat, HIPAA, Justin Bieber and Jesus
First, music and antidepressants: I took antidepressants every day for twenty-six years. During that time all I listened to was country and western music. Kenny Rogers called it “the white man’s blues” and I listened to the words. After I … Continue reading
Posted in American medical industry, drugs, Health Care, Medical care, Nature, Pharmaceuticals, physician, Values
Tagged antidepressants, celiac disease, Conditions and Diseases, diagnosis, doctors, drugs, Gluten-free diet, Health, health care, HIPAA, Jesus, Justine Bieber, Kenny Rogers, Medicine, music, O Holy Night, patients, pharmaceuticals, Physician, wheat
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Being “Disappeared” into CPEP (Part II)
My second priority was Tom: where was he? The Syracuse Police Department had taken him to CPEP (Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program) and then he had disappeared. No one would tell his wife or siblings where he was. Now, I know … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, American medical industry, Government Services, Health Care, Inpatient psychiatry, Medical care, Mental Illness & Health
Tagged Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program, Conditions and Diseases, confidentiality, CPEP, Disappear, HIPAA, Legal Aid of Cenrral New York, mental disorder, Mental Hyiene Legal Service, mental illness, Michael Hungerford, Mike Hungerford, Onondaga County New York, PAIMI, Patient, Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness, psychiatric disorders, St. Joseph's Hospital, toxic families
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You Come First–Really (Part II)
What the hell does the Brownell Center for Behavioral Therapy think you want psychotherapy for? For all this stuff—the yelling and hitting and fucking and drunkenness and drugging! That’s what’s hurting you! And they are ripping through the most painful, … Continue reading
Posted in Depression, disability, Government Services, Health Care, Mental Illness & Health
Tagged Brownell Center, Dr. Robert Feldman, HIPAA, mental disorder, mental health, mental illness, National Institute of Mental Health, NIMH, Onondaga County New York, patients, psychiatric disorders, Psychotherapy, Robert Feldman, Syracuse University
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What Gives You the Authority? (Part I)
One day, several years ago, I called Medical Answering Services (MAS), which has the contract to dispatch Medicaid transportation in a lot of NYS counties, and I asked for a ride to my doctor. The MAS call-taker responded with “What … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, Fraud, Government Services, Medicaid, Poverty, Power
Tagged abuse of power, confidentiality, David Sutkowy, DSS, Governance, Greg Allen, HIPAA, MAS, Medicaid, Medicaid transportation, Medical Answering Service, Onondaga County New York, poor people, poverty, power, privacy, values, Wayne Freeman
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It’s Called Free Speech (Part I)
Mark Bertozzi just called me. Who is Mark Bertozzi? In that thing about the government “of, by and for the people” he’s the “by” part. Mark talked to me for four minutes. Then, when I asked if he would listen to … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, disability, disability rights, God, Government Services, Medicaid, Poverty, Power, Values
Tagged advocate, Central New York, citizen, democracy, Dept. of Social Services, dignity, disability, disability rights, DSS, God, government, HIPAA, integrity, Mark Bertozzi, MAS, Medicaid, Medicaid transportation, Medical Answering Service, NYS Dept. of Heatlh, poverty, power, problem solving, respect, Tim Perry-Coon, Wayne Freeman
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