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Tag Archives: mental health counselor
How to Complain: Writing the Complaint
For starters, Ms R, your written message to me was just fine. You don’t have to be “a very good writer” to file a written complaint. You are not in high school and the English teacher is not going to … Continue reading
Posted in Community General Hospital, CPEP, doctor, drugs, Hutchings Psychiatric Center, Inpatient psychiatry, mental illness, Mental Patients Liberation Alliance, NYS Office of Mental Health, patient, physician, psychiatric patient, psychiatrist, psychiatry, St. Joseph's Hospital, Upstate Medical Center
Tagged complain, complaint, Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program, CPEP, doctor, drugs, hospital, Hutchings Psychiatric Center, incident, inpatient psychiatry, investigate, medication, Medicine, Mental disorder, mental health counselor, mental illness, NYS Office of Mental Health, Patient, physician, power, psychiatric hospital, psychiatric patient, psychiatrist, Psychiatry, report
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St. Joseph’s: The Perverse Pathology of Mary Corbliss (Part V)
On December 31, 2010, I began a four-part post about Mary Corbliss. It is one of the top three posts that readers are going to, so it deserves a final note. Mary Corbliss was (and probably still is, judging from the … Continue reading
Posted in Community General Hospital, CPEP, doctor, drugs, Hutchings Psychiatric Center, Inpatient psychiatry, mental illness, NYS Office of Mental Health, patient, physician, psychiatric patient, psychiatrist, psychiatry, St. Joseph's Hospital, Suicide, Unit 3-6, Upstate Medical Center
Tagged Catholic Church, Chemical imbalance, CPEP, drugs, hospital, inpatient psychiatry, Mary Corbliss, medication, Medicine, Mental disorder, mental health counselor, mental illness, Patient, post traumatic stress disorder, psychiatric hospital, psychiatric patient, Psychiatry, psychopathology, PTSD, St. Joseph's, St. Joseph's Hospital, suicide, Unit 3-6
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St. Joseph’s: Discharge
About the Party. The staff has a party on 3-6, a shower for two pregnant staff members. The party is held on the unit in view of the patients, but patients are not allowed to attend. We watch through the … Continue reading
Posted in Inpatient psychiatry, mental illness, NYS Office of Mental Health, psychiatric patient, psychiatrist, St. Joseph's Hospital
Tagged CPAP, depression, doctor, hospital, inpatient psychiatry, Marian Wright Edelman, Martin Luther King Jr, mental health, mental health counselor, mental illness, NYS Office of Mental Health, Patient, physician, psychiatrist, sleep apnea, St. Joseph's Hospital, Unit 3-6
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St. Joseph’s: Hate Crimes, Violence and Ignorance
About Cheyenne. Cheyenne is a woman of color who stands about six feet tall. Her heritage is so mixed that she is a mini-United Nations all by herself. She is legally blind. One morning, she is in the day … Continue reading
Posted in Hutchings Psychiatric Center, Inpatient psychiatry, mental illness, NYS Office of Mental Health, psychiatric patient, psychiatrist, St. Joseph's Hospital
Tagged civil rights, depression, hate crime, Health, hospital, ignorance, inpatient psychiatry, Island Peer Review Organization, Jane Kou, justice, mental health counselor, Mental Hygiene Legal Service, nurse, Patient, physician, police, psychiatric patient, psychiatrist, safety, St. Joseph's Hospital, suicidal, Unit 3-6, violence
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St. Joseph’s: The Perverse Pathology of Mary Corbliss (Part IV)
Everything had to go through Mary, and Mary was not available to meet my every need. She made sure to tell me clearly, impatiently, “Anne, you’re not my only patient. You know that.” I went to the nursing … Continue reading
Posted in Inpatient psychiatry, mental illness, NYS Office of Mental Health, St. Joseph's Hospital
Tagged cortisol, CPAP, depression, doctor, endocrinology, epinephrine, FSH, hospital, inpatient psychiatry, lightbox, Mary Corbliss, medical evaluation, Medicine, menopause, mental health counselor, nurse, nursing staff, pathology, Patient, physical disability, physician, psych nurse, psychiatric patient, psychopathology, seasonal affective disorder, sleep apnea, St. Joseph's Hospital, Unit 3-6, wheelchair
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St. Joseph’s: The Perverse Pathology of Mary Corbliss (Part III)
My doctor had written an order that I could have my radio and its headset at my bedside to be used as an alternate to the normal pharmaceutical tranquilizer. Mary Corbliss took it away from me, ostensibly because the … Continue reading
Posted in Inpatient psychiatry, mental illness, NYS Office of Mental Health, St. Joseph's Hospital
Tagged borderline personality disorder, charge nurse, CPAP, Diagnosis, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, doctor, Dr. Roger Levine, DSM, inpatient psychiatry, intelligent, Ipana, Mary Corbliss, Mental disorder, mental health, mental health counselor, obstructive, pathology, Patient, pharmaceuticals, sleep apnea, St. Joseph's Hospital, tranquilizer, treatment plan, Unit 3-6
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St. Joseph’s: The Perverse Pathology of Mary Corbliss (Part I)
Mary Corbliss is a mental health counselor on Unit 3-6. She is small, in her mid-thirties, and has long, mouse-brown hair. She presents as a sweet person, with a mouth that she frequently gathers up in a doll-like smile. … Continue reading
Posted in CPEP, Inpatient psychiatry, mental illness, NYS Office of Mental Health, St. Joseph's Hospital
Tagged CPEP, dependent, hospital, inpatient psychiatry, Mary Corbliss, medical diagnosis, Medicine, mental health, mental health counselor, Patient, physician, psychiatric patient, psychiatrist, Psychiatry, St. Joseph's Hospital, trauma, treatment plan, Unit 3-6
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