Monthly Archives: April 2013
Roger Levine, M.D. (Part III)
On Monday morning, Levine comes in. I ask him to call Palliative Care. Hospice care is six-months-to-death; palliative care is when you’re wrecked but won’t die fast enough to qualify for Hospice. (Dr. Tucker referred me to Hospice last year … Continue reading
Roger Levine, M.D. (Part II)
Maureen Kissane, from the Mental Hygiene Legal Service, immediately filed a three-part thingy, first, requesting that Levine be removed from my case; second, that I get the medical attention I’d been requesting (all I’d gotten so far were nurses saying, … Continue reading
Roger Levine, M.D. (Part I)
Adult Protective Services has been called because I can’t get out of bed. I fear them and don’t know what they will do to me. The most important thing—the thing you must hear, must help me with—is filing a complaint … Continue reading
Psychiatric Treatment of Hypoglycemia
At home, I awake to the cool of an open window, and snuggle into my blankets. The hospital is overheated and I sweat a lot. It is spring and the first sound of the day is birdsong. On inpatient psychiatry, … Continue reading
Greetings, Gentlefolk
I have spent the past twelve days in St. Joseph’s Hospital on inpatient psychiatry (Unit 3-6) with Dr. Roger Levine attending. I am now going to file complaints with the New York State Dept. of Health, NYS Office of Mental Health, … Continue reading
About that Integrity Thing
I promise you, everything you read here is true and not contaminated by any politics. Nobody controls or influences what I print. There was one attempt to compromise me by psychiatrist Dr. Peter Breggin and his wife and administrator, Ginger Breggin, … Continue reading
Behind the Locked Doors of Inpatient Psychiatry 