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Joaquin Rivera Robbed While Dying In Emergency Room: UPDATE (VIDEO)

Huffington Post/AP | MARYCLAIRE DALE | Posted 12.03.2009 | New York

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UPDATE: Authorities have released footage of the terrible robbery: ******** PHILADELPHIA (Associated Press) - A school counselor suffering an app...

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Lessons from the Death of "Mental Patient" Esmin Green

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 08.15.2008 | Living

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Dr. Peter Breggin

The Emergency Room video cam took it all in but no human response was forthcoming. Forty-nine year old Esmin Green had been involuntarily committed a...

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Death by Neglect

Jay Neugeboren | Posted 07.15.2008 | Living

Read More: Psychiatry, Overmedication, Mental Health, Kings County Hospital Center, New York Civil Liberties Union, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Flophouses, Health, Esmin Green, Psychiatric Drugs, Hospitals, New York City and State Mental Health Systems, Parkinsonism, Living News
Jay Neugeboren

My brother Robert has been a patient in the NYC mental health systems for the past 46 years, and though outraged by Esmin Green's death, I'm not surprised -- people with mental illness remain the stepchildren of the medical system.

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The Medical System Meltdown

Paul Peete | Posted 07.13.2008 | Home

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Paul Peete

If McCain is allowed to determine our future medical care, we will continue to suffer as a nation from a system designed to cater to only the smallest percentage of the very most wealthy people on earth.

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