Shameful Profiling of the Mentally Ill

Shameful Profiling of the Mentally Ill - NYTimes.com

The border agent told her he was acting in accordance with the United States Immigration and Nationality Act, Section 212, which allows patrols to block people from visiting the United States if they have a physical or mental disorder that threatens anyone’s “property, safety or welfare.

Meet Dr. Lombardi - Doctor to Mother Teresa

Dr. George Lombardi, doctor to Mother Teresa and the Missionaries of Charity

Published on Mar 22, 2013

 

A young doctor is whisked halfway across the globe to care for an ailing international religious icon.

Dr. George Lombardi is a lifelong New Yorker, where he's in private practice.

The Secrets Inside Us

The Secrets Inside Us - NYTimes.com

A few years ago, I had the privilege of participating in anatomical dissections alongside medical students, and let me tell you: Open up a human body, and you will be very surprised by what you see. Nothing is as perfectly clean and clear as anatomical illustrations suggest. The body is murky. Muscles don’t neatly separate for you in order to display their various parts. What lies beneath the chiseled beauty that is a six-pack, to cite one example, is wet and messy. 

65 Diseases Treated With Adult Stem Cells

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Miracle of Science: 65 Diseases Treated With Adult Stem Cells
Biotech advances could make destroying human embryos for research a relic of the past.
Bob Smietana

As a young medical student three decades ago, Mark Magnuson learned the basic facts of human development. Among those supposed facts was this one: Adult cells can't change what they are. A heart cell is always a heart cell, a skin cell is always a skin cell. That's not the case with...

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Friendship and people with mental illness

Warren Kinghorn and Abraham Nussbaum: Friendship and people with mental illness | Faith & Leadership

December 3, 2013

Life for people with serious mental illness can be isolating, but it does not have to be that way, say psychiatrists Warren Kinghorn and Abraham Nussbaum.

Instead, churches can do much to welcome, be with and support those with mental illness.

“The Christian life, with its account of patience, charity, responsibility and the other virtues, offers a more robust response [than the culture at large],” Nussbaum said.

Learning how to be friends with people with mental illness is really about learning how to be friends with people generally, Kinghorn said.

A Guide to San Diego Hospital Districts

A Reader’s Guide to San Diego Hospital Districts | Voice of San Diego

Think of them like school districts, but for health care. District hospitals are publicly subsidized and function like county hospitals — only the county is divided into subsections. 

Meet the Taxpayer-Funded Hospitals

There are dozens of elected officials in our county, from the high-profile congressional and state representatives to the folks who spend their time overseeing obscure agencies like water districts.

And then there are the people who get elected to run hospitals. Yes, hospitals. Thanks to a quirk in San Diego County’s history, we’re home to four government-run hospital districts, which soak up property taxes and borrow money on the public dime.

What’s up with these things? We take a look in a new Reader’s Guide. Pay special attention if you live in North County or East County: You’re probably covered by one of these hospital agencies, and each one has a unique story to tell about revenue (or lack thereof), management and its ability to play well with others.

We also examine a big issue: Why bother having a public hospital if it’s going to partner with a private health system?