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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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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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The SPD That Can’t Do Anything Right
At 6:22 a.m. a car alarm started sounding outside my window—well, somewhere outside my window. I live on the eighth floor, so it wasn’t directly outside my window. Directly under my window is a Crouse Hospital parking lot. If the … Continue reading
Great Aunt Mildred and the MRI
A few years ago I needed an MRI—I no longer remember why. I’d had open MRIs but this one had to be a closed MRI and my psychologist and I weren’t entirely sure if I could handle it. He—Dr. Paul … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Medical care
Tagged conscious, Dr. Paul M. Cohen, Hope Family Reunion, Hypnotherapy, Mary Hope, MRI, Patient, psychologist, relationships, Roy Hope, unconscious
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The Old Man has a Name (Part V)
The Old Man on the Sidewalk has a real name: Edward C. Bloser. He was on the sidewalk with his five cartons of possessions because the good Lord put him right in front of me where I’d have to trip … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, American medical industry, disability, disability rights, Government Services, Health Care, Medical care, Poverty, Power, Powerlessness, Values
Tagged ambulance, choice, Conditions and Diseases, democracy, disability, disability rights, Edward C Bloser, Freedom, God, Governance, health care, Onondaga County New York, Paramedic, Patient, poverty, power, Rural Metro, TLC Medical Transport, VA Hospital, Veterans Administration, Veterans Health Administration
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SURVIVING PSYCHIATRY: A User’s Manual
SURVIVING PSYCHIATRY: A User’s Manual by Anne C Woodlen Now for sale to you, this 60-page collection of 23 essays recently sold out at Dr. Peter Breggin’s Empathic Therapy Conference. “The great jazz bassist Ron Carter once described good jazz … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, American medical industry, Death, Depression, disability, disability rights, drugs, Fraud, God, Government Services, Health Care, Holistic, Housing, Humor, Inpatient psychiatry, Medicaid, Medical care, Medicare, Mental Illness & Health, Pharmaceuticals, physician, Poverty, Power, power wheelchairs, Powerlessness, Sex, Spirituality, Values
Tagged antidepressants, Benjamine Rush Center, bipolar, Conditions and Diseases, CPEP, death, depression, diagnosis, disability, doctors, drugs, Emergency psychiatry, end-of-life, God, Health, health care, Hutchings Psychiatric Center, Lorazepam, Medicaid, Medicare, Medicine, mental disorder, mental hospital, mental illness, Onondaga County New York, Patient, patients, Peter Breggin, pharmaceuticals, Physician, Post-Standard, poverty, power, problem solving, psychiatric disorders, Psychiatrist, Psychiatry, reform, relationships, Richard Gottlieb, Sleep apnea, Social work, St. Joseph's Hospital, Surviving Psychiatry, values
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The Old Man Revisited (Part IV)
When last we met, the Old Man—Dr. Michael Gregory, 73, who has had seven strokes as well as other major medical problems—had been dumped in a motel by Steven Armendarez, a social worker at the Syracuse Veterans Administration Hospital. Dr. … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, American medical industry, disability, Government Services, Health Care, Housing, Medical care, Poverty, Powerlessness, Values
Tagged "excited utterance", Ann Marie Buerkle, case management, Charles Schumer, Conditions and Diseases, David Carr, diagnosis, disability, discharge planning, Earl Fortenot, health care, homeless veterans, Kirsten Gillibrand, Onondaga County New York, Patient, patients bill of rights, patients rights, poverty, power, problem solving, Social work, social worker, Steven Armendarez, Syracuse VA Hospital, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, VA Hospital, values, Veterans Health Administration
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On Monday!
Anne C Woodlen does a guest spot on Dr. Peter Breggin’s radio show. Listen to them discuss power, humiliation and recovery: psychiatric hospitalization, depression, drugs, and relationships. The show will be aired Monday, January 23, at 5:00 p.m. on http://www.progressiveradionetwork.com/the-dr-peter-breggin-hour/ Thereafter it … Continue reading
Posted in activism, American medical industry, Depression, disability, drugs, Inpatient psychiatry, Mental Illness & Health, Pharmaceuticals, Power, Powerlessness, Values
Tagged Anne C Woodlen, Antidepressant, antidepressants, depression, disability, drugs, humiliation, Medicine, mental disorder, mental health, mental illness, Onondaga County New York, Patient, Peter Breggin, power, psychiatric disorders, Psychiatric hospital, Psychiatrist, recovery, relationships, St. Joseph's Hospital
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Life Review
A few weeks ago I asked my therapist, “What am I doing here?” “Life review,” she replied. I lost my life to antidepressants. I suppose that’s why I’m having episodes of depression. The trigger for depression is the perception of powerlessness … Continue reading
Posted in American medical industry, Depression, drugs, Inpatient psychiatry, Pharmaceuticals, physician, Power, Powerlessness
Tagged abuse, Antidepressant, antidepressants, degradation, depression, doctors, drugs, end-of-life, humiliation, Medicine, mental disorder, mental illness, Patient, patients, Peter Breggin, pharmaceuticals, power, psychiatric disorders, Psychiatrist, Psychiatry
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