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Subversive Definitions of Insanity
Posted on 29 May, 2009 | 15 CommentsElisabeth, my dear, You may be telling yourself, 'My brother has gone crazy. I have! And what fun!'” -Friedrich Nietzsche -
Medically Militant
Posted on 29 May, 2009 | 6 CommentsWe have made great strides in the prevention and treatment of disease. Things that would have resulted in death a hundred years ago, like a ruptured appendix or consumption are easily treated with surgical intervention and antibiotics. However do we go too far in requiring that our ideals of treatment are met regardless of the patient’s wishes? -
The Fables of Iliamna
Posted on 29 May, 2009 | 4 CommentsBy Karla Fetrow Author’s note: Iliamna is located across the Cook Inlet from the Kenai Penninsula. A companion to Redoubt… -
Dr. Phal and the Somali Pirate
Posted on 28 May, 2009 | 2 Comments -
Legislative Justice
Posted on 15 May, 2009 | 4 CommentsBy Karlsie The little bastards were at war again, carving out chunks of meat, prodding, beating and jumping on them until the pieces were soft and tender. The metaphors were his own. -
Sharon Smith: Whereabouts Unknown
Posted on 15 May, 2009 | 15 CommentsEditor’s note: This story is true to the best of my knowledge. After handing me this letter on April fourth, 2006, Sharon Smith fled from Alaska -
“Stand Up For The Stupid and Crazy”-A case for supporting public funding of Mental Health Care
Posted on 15 May, 2009 | 11 CommentsChances are that each of us has been either directly or indirectly affected by Mental Illness at some time in our life. Chances also are that we have paid for treating Mental Illness in one way or another. Whether it be paying for psychotherapy or pharmacotherapy following a particularly bad event in our lives or by our tax dollars going towards treating others who have, or claim to have, a mental illness. How much should we as a society be responsible for when it comes to Mental Health needs and how much should an individual take responsibility for? -
Review: Wolf At The Table
Posted on 13 May, 2009 | 4 CommentsThe book "A Wolf At The Table" is another slice of Burroughs childhood.It grabbed me by the throat and wouldn’t let go. It is a horror story unlike anything I have ever read by this author. There are indeed flashes of humor, but the underlying text can move one to tears. -
Domestic Battlefield of Social Violence
Posted on 9 May, 2009 | 6 Commentsby Karla Fetrow Igniting the Charge “You can see right here, the holes near the bottom of the door where two of the bullets hit. Notice by the splintering, the gun was actually pointed downwards -
End of Life Care…Not Storage
Posted on 8 May, 2009 | 6 CommentsIs it necessary for (A) patient and family have to ask the Nursing Staff and the Doctor writing the admission orders exactly what does DNR and CMO mean to them? Is there not a standard of practice that should be in force at Nursing Homes in regard to end of life? If such a standard is present, then, who enforces it? Who advocates for the patient who has no family, or whose family is far away, or if present, does not understand why sedation for the sake of sedation is wrong.
