From The Lund Report, May 30, 2013 Pamela Martin, PhD, a recent transplant from New Mexico, said she’s still getting her bearings in Oregon’s healthcare system Pamela Martin, PhD, stepped into her new role as director of Oregon’s Addictions and Mental Health Division at the beginning of May, and she’s still getting her bearings in […]
Thank you all for sharing your comments with me. [ Kotek is responding to MHAP’s petition to stop construction of the proposed psychiatric hospital at Junction City. ] Federal standards require people needing hospital level care to receive treatment in a hospital setting. In order to maintain an appropriate amount of hospital beds, the Legislature […]
By Capi Lynn, Statesman Journal, May 30, 2013 Dr. Dean Brooks of Oregon State Hospital and “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” fame died this morning. He was 96. He passed away peacefully in his apartment at Willson House surrounded by family, including his three daughters, five grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Brooks was the […]
Corvallis Gazette-Times, May 28, 2013 The mother of a boy accused of planning to bomb West Albany High School issued a statement Monday through her lawyer, saying the youth has struggled with a rare form of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Also Monday, an Albany Police Department spokesman said three Albany Police Department student resource officers will be […]
Daniel Johnston on IRS’ “The Cutting Edge” 1985 at Liberty Lunch in Austin, Texas. How much more can you fit into less?
By Kevin R. Davis, The Rap Sheet, May 3, 2013 You can put lipstick on a pig, as the saying goes. It can be the reddest, glossiest lipstick around, the kind that some super-model or movie actress pitches on TV. Heck, talking about movie stars, that lipstick can be applied to a recently Botoxed oinker […]
From the Salem Statesman Journal, May 28, 2013 Mary Claire Buckley, the executive director of the state Psychiatric Security Review Board, has submitted her resignation from the post she has held for more than 20 years. The PSRB is scheduled to meet next Tuesday and the second agenda item is “motion for acceptance of executive […]
By Kathleen Struck, MedPage Today, May 23, 2013 The life expectancy gap between the mentally ill and the general population has widened, largely because of comorbidities like cardiovascular disease and cancer, a study found. READ the study – Lawrence D, et al “The gap in life expectancy from preventable physical illness in psychiatric patients in Western […]
By Lauren LeBano, PsychCongress Network, May 23, 2013 Prejudices about individuals with mental illness play a role in many healthcare providers’ treatment decisions involving physical conditions, a randomized trial suggested. When providers of all types — even mental health professionals — were presented with hypothetical vignettes of patients with medical conditions such as obesity, the […]
By Christopher David Grey, The Lund Report, May 20, 2013 Rep. Jim Weidner of McMinnville is typically the most conservative Republican on the House Health Committee, but after an emotional debate on Friday he was moved to become the lone GOP representative to join with the Democrats to send to the floor Senate Bill 281 […]
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