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What would you do if your child was mentally screened at school and diagnosed with mental disorders without your permission? That happened to this mother, Teresa Rhoades
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JOURNAL EDITORIAL STAFF | Published: August 22, 2008
Once again, this state’s mental-health system has terribly failed. A mental patient at Cherry Hospital in Goldsboro died some time after workers had left him in a chair for 22 hours without feeding or helping him use the bathroom — even as they watched TV, played cards and chatted on a cell phone just a few feet away. That psychiatric hospital, and the state mental health-care system in general, must improve its care.
TAMPA — In the wake of two recent suicides at Tampa General Hospital, federal regulators are threatening to stop Medicare funding to the hospital, citing serious safety problems in its psychiatric unit.
Regulators found psychiatric patients to be in “immediate jeopardy” in an investigation prompted by the suicides. The hospital has until Sept. 6 to fix the problems or lose funding, said the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
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Cartoons about the psychiatrist’s couch were recently the subject of a museum exhibition. Now, the couch itself may be headed for a museum.
A new study finds a significant decline in psychotherapy practiced by U.S. psychiatrists.
The expanded use of pills and insurance policies that favor short office visits are among the reasons, said lead author Dr. Ramin Mojtabai of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore.
“The ‘couch,’ or, more generally, long-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy, was for so long a hallmark of the practice of psychiatry. It no longer is,” he said.
A 42-year-old patient at Ancora Psychiatric Hospital in Winslow was critically injured when she was punched in the head by another patient.
The assault was the latest in a series of incidents that have focused attention on the quality of patient care at the state’s largest psychiatric hospital.
Pedro Torres, 25, of Vineland was charged with second-degree aggravated assault after the attack July 30, according to state police Sgt. Julian Castellanos.
This psychiatrist must have pissed off someone, either it be Zeus or the famous Mortal combat character Raiden.
Maybe He pissed off one of his electroshock therapy patient, who managed to develop special lightning bolt powers after the result of being shocked so many times?
Rob Ryser |The Journal News
HARTSDALE - A lightning bolt smashed through the roof of a psychiatrist’s home and started a fire last night that destroyed the third floor, the fire department said.
The psychiatrist, Dr. Elon Schwartz, and his family got out of the home at 6 Sunset Lane as soon as they heard the bolt strike the house and saw the second floor filling with smoke.A Hartsdale firefighter who was putting water on the flames inside suffered a minor foot injury.
“He was on the interior attack,” Hartsdale Deputy Fire Chief F. J. Spinelli said. “He either slipped or fell.”
The firefighter was treated at White Plains Hospital Center. His name was not released.
Firefigthters were able to save family valuables and the records of Schwartz’s practice, which he conducted out of the home.
But the fire caused extensive damage to the 105-year-old structure, described by Spinelli as a center hall Colonial.
Firefighters rushed to the 11:10 p.m. emergency after getting 911 call.
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By Bruce E. Levine, AlterNet
Posted on July 23, 2008, Printed on July 24, 2008
American psychiatry has been rocked by Congress. Congressional investigators first exposed the financial relationships between high-profile psychiatrists and drug companies. “But now the profession itself is under attack in Congress,” reported the New York Times on July 12, 2008.
Specifically under attack is psychiatry’s premier professional organization, the American Psychiatric Association. The New York Times stated, “In 2006, the latest year for which numbers are available, the drug industry accounted for about 30 percent of the association’s $62.5 million in financing. About half of that money went to drug advertisements in psychiatric journals and exhibits at the annual meeting, and the other half to sponsor fellowships, conferences and industry symposiums at the annual meeting.”