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Glasses, Dentures and CPAP/BiPAP Machines
When did you start to rely on the American medical industry for the quality of your life? For me, it started about a quarter of a century ago when I got glasses. What would our lives have been like without … Continue reading
Posted in American medical industry, Medical care
Tagged BiPAP, Conditions and Diseases, CPAP, dentures, eyeglasses, glasses, Sleep apnea
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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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Doctors are Dorkheads: Sleep, Obesity, Hypertension and Diabetes
Maybe the reason you are overweight is because of poor sleep. When you are not getting enough restorative sleep then your body produces more of the hormone that increases your appetite and less of the hormone that decreases your appetite. … Continue reading
Posted in American medical industry, drugs, Health Care, Medical care, Nature, Pharmaceuticals, physician
Tagged blood sugar, Conditions and Diseases, diabetes, diagnosis, doctors, dorkheads, Dr. Nasri Ghaly, drugs, eating, Health, health care, Hippocrates, hormones, Hypertension, immune system, Medicine, obesity, Obstructive sleep apnea, patients, pharmaceuticals, Physician, Positive airway pressure, problem solving, sleep, Sleep apnea, Sleep disorder, St. Joseph's Hospital, weight gain
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Antidepressants, Welfare, Medicaid and Celiac Disease
My kidneys are hurting since I started taking antidepressants Well, stop taking them, duh. If the pain doesn’t go away, then go see a physician. You might have a kidney infection that doesn’t have anything to do with the antidepressant, … Continue reading
Posted in American medical industry, Depression, disability, drugs, Government Services, Health Care, Medicaid, Medical care, Medicare, Pharmaceuticals, physician, Poverty, Powerlessness, Values
Tagged Antidepressant, antidepressants, celiac disease, Chemical imbalance, Coeliac disease, Conditions and Diseases, depression, doctors, drugs, fat, Food Stamps, gluten-free, homeless, intelligence, Internet, lawyer, Legal Aid, malpractice, Medicaid, Medicare, Medicine, Office of Professional Medical Conduct, Onondaga County, OPMC, overweight, Physician, physician's license, poverty, problem solving, relationship, Sleep apnea, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Welfare
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Ativan, Sleep Apnea, and Bad Craziness
Someone searched my blog for Ativan with sleep apnea: DO NOT TAKE ATIVAN IF YOU HAVE SLEEP APNEA. It could kill you. Ativan, also known as Lorazepam and Temesta, is a benzodiazepine; it is a narcotic. It is used for the … Continue reading
Posted in American medical industry, Depression, drugs, Medical care, Mental Illness & Health, Pharmaceuticals, physician
Tagged addiction, antidepressants, Ativan, auto BiPAP, benzodiazepine, BiPAP, bipolar, Conditions and Diseases, CPAP, depression, diagnosis, doctors, Dr. Nasri Ghaly, drugs, FDA, insomnia, Lorazepam, mental illness, narcotic, pharmaceuticals, Physician, Physicians Desk Reference, psychiatric disorders, Psychiatrist, respiratory illness, Sleep apnea, Sleep disorder, suicide
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Men, Women and Doctors
The sun has risen on a skiff of snow covering the houses and hills outside my window. My home and I are quiet this morning. James Taylor’s “You’ve Got a Friend” accompanies tea. Rainbows are dancing off the prism … Continue reading
Posted in Health Care, Values, Spirituality, Power, Sex, advocacy, activism, Medical care, American medical industry, God, Pharmaceuticals, drugs, physician
Tagged health care, sex, relationships, bipolar, antidepressants, doctors, drugs, physicians, pharmaceuticals, power, God, disability, Medicine, Physician, patients, Sleep apnea, Bipolar disorder, Conditions and Diseases, therapist, psychologist, Ativan, side-effects, spirituality, sleep, Lorazepam, Drug, Sleep disorder, men, women, multiple sclerosis, MS, pharmaceutical, complaince, bully
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VESID, CPEP/CPAP, Medicaid & Malpractice: Answers to More Questions
VESID—a drug; I don’t like VESID; Complaints and VESID; is celiac covered under NYS VESID Act? VESID is neither a drug nor an act. It is New York State’s Office of Vocational and Educational Services for Individuals with Disabilities. (They couldn’t think … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, American medical industry, disability, disability rights, Fraud, Government Services, Health Care, Medicaid, Medical care, Mental Illness & Health, Poverty, Power, Values
Tagged acupuncture, Autoimmune disease, celiac disease, Civil Service, complaints, Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program, Conditions and Diseases, continuous positive airway pressure, County Executive, CPAP, CPEP, disability, disability rights, Dr. Nasri Ghaly, Dr.William Harris, drugs, gluten, health care, John Mulroy, lawyers, Legal Aid, malpractice, Medicaid, mental disorder, mental illness, NYS Office of Vocational and Educational Services for Individuals with Disabilities, Onondaga County, Onondaga County New York, Peter Andreoli, problem solving, psychiatric disorders, Republican Party, Sleep apnea, Stephen Rogers, Syracuse University, The Syracuse Newspapers, VESID, VESID complaint
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Doctors with Potent Alternatives: The Chiropractor
There’s a green space in the Valley where your spirit can rest. The sign out front says Network Chiropractic and the doctor inside is Stephen Wechsler. I pop the front door open, tilt my head past the doorway into the treatment … Continue reading
Is Not the Morning Near?
When my mother was six years old her uncle, Richard Hope, went swimming and road home at sunset in an open buggy and a wet bathing suit. He caught a cold that turned into pneumonia and three days later he … Continue reading
Posted in American medical industry, Death, Depression, God, Health Care, Medical care, Mental Illness & Health, Pharmaceuticals
Tagged Addison's disease, Alexander Fleming, Ativan, autoimmune, Bipolar disorder, chronic renal failure, diabetes mellitus, drugs, Elizabeth Woodlen, FDA, juvenile diabetes, lithium, Macrobid, medication, penicillin, pharmaceuticals, Physician, pneumonia, pulmonary fibrosis, Richard Hope, Sleep apnea
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SOB and the S.O.B.s (part I)
Between 1984 and 1991, I was progressively poisoned by a psychiatrist who prescribed lithium and didn’t monitor it. She should have been checking lithium levels every two months, kidney function every six months, and cardiac function annually. She did none … Continue reading
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Tagged Asperger syndrome, Asperger's syndrome, Conditions and Diseases, diagnosis, doctors, drugs, Health, health care, immune system, lithium, lithium. Macrobid, low-stress lifestyle, Macrobid, Medicine, mental disorder, mental health, mental illness, nephrogenic diabetes insipidus, patients, pharmaceuticals, Physician, physicians, pulmonary fibrosis, shortness of breath, sleep apena, Sleep apnea, SOB
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