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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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Resources re Understanding Psych Meds
Ethical Issues Related to Treatment Induced Harm (Part II) By Ron Unger on September 8, 2012 The Triumph of Bad Science is a blog post by Robert Whitaker that explains the history of the false claim that black box warnings about … Continue reading
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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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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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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Syndrome W
Some time ago, a group psychologist treated me most unjustly. In a rage of hurt and anger, I asked my individual psychologist, “What can I do?” He replied, “You can write about it,” and thereby my call was given. I … Continue reading
Posted in American medical industry, Death, Depression, disability, drugs, God, Medical care, Mental Illness & Health, Pharmaceuticals, physician
Tagged Amelia, antidepressants, catheter, Conditions and Diseases, death, depression, diagnosis, doctors, Dr. James Tucker, drugs, immune system, lithium, Medicine, mental disorder, mental illness, Onondaga County New York, patients, pharmaceuticals, Physician, Psychiatrist, St. Joseph's Hospital, Syndrome W, Visiting Nurses Association, VNA
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When Sooner becomes Later
So Dr. Tucker asked, “Would you be willing to go see the immunologists at the Cleveland Clinic?” I said yes and he said he would arrange a hospital-to-hospital transfer. When he came back a day or two later, Dr. Tucker quietly … Continue reading
Posted in American medical industry, Depression, drugs, Medical care, Nature, Pharmaceuticals, physician, Recipes
Tagged antidepressants, catheter, Cleveland Clinic, Conditions and Diseases, depression, diabetes, diagnosis, doctors, Dr. James Tucker, drugs, glucose, immunology, Medicine, patients, Peter Breggin, pharmaceuticals, Physician, recovery, sleep, spell-binding
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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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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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