dear friends--you will most likely have 2 levels of outrage as you read below: first, at the reminder that there are still thousands of americans with...
I submitted a letter to the Globe Mail last month concerning the following piece. My letter follows below. What is notable is the extremity of the...
Kirk C Allison
alli0001@...
Aug 3, 2006 3:58 pm
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"Taking care of residents is a grueling and sometimes dangerous job, employees say. Adult residents -- many with the mental age of infants or toddlers -- can ...
Ironsides
ironsides@...
Aug 4, 2006 3:11 am
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It was good to read your response to the situation, and to such a depressing "willful promotion of hate" in the press. It is so laughable, how this couple...
Ironsides
ironsides@...
Aug 4, 2006 3:12 am
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Ironsides, Good for you for getting this guy fired, and making the rest leave. I get tired of 'hearing' their side of the story, but too often those in care ...
(While Michael Schiavo makes the political rounds, this study has received little attention in the media. Interesting findings related to people's willingness...
People who do the jobs of "Nursing assistants" or "behavioral technicians" or "personal care attendants" whatever the job's official title is, get paid very...
Kirk, Who is supplying the wrong information to these parents? My son just had my granddaughter and she is a Turner's syndrome, an X and part of an X or maybe ...
Hi Kathy, I certainly agree with you. If people were served by attendants and aides who had some training, their chances for recovery would greatly increase....
Unfortunately, they would only really consider it a "mistake" if the fetus aborted had normal # chromosomes or normal placement of genes,etc. It isn't ever a...
Concerning psychiatric hospitals, I don't dispute the level of unprovoked abuse which workers are under. One point I was trying to make, however, is alot of...
Ironsides
ironsides@...
Aug 7, 2006 5:12 am
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I have been working with domestic violence shelters to get them aware of husbands having medical rights over their wives injured from DV. We work with ...
dlbeckmassey@...
Aug 7, 2006 5:12 am
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Concerning psychiatric hospitals, I don't dispute the level of unprovoked abuse which workers are under. One point I was trying to make, however, is alot of...
Ironsides
ironsides@...
Aug 7, 2006 5:12 am
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(Looks like this author read some of our material related to the Albany conference. She certainly doesn't suffer from problems in decoding our message in her...
The below article comes from an open access site. Among many other things, it raises severe conflict of interest questions re pharmaceutical research and the...
Not sure I get what is DV? what do you want disabled women to get ? on what issue Maria ... From: dlbeckmassey@... To: Bioethics@yahoogroups.com Sent:...
Ironsides, I do not sympathize with unethical behavior in workers. In fact, quite the opposite. You agree to do a job, for a certain rate of pay, and a...
(Jessica Hayes of the CCDI has done and outstanding job of covering the fallout from the coverage of the alleged murder of Katie McCarron and the broader...
This is in the 10 August 2006 NEJM - I believe the Perspective is public access. The report mentioned indicates that some may consider very low probabilities...
Kirk C Allison
alli0001@...
Aug 11, 2006 9:01 pm
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Dear Maria, DV is domestic violence. In many instances the spouse has set themselves up as caregiver for the disabled woman, often they are listed as the...
dlbeckmassey@...
Aug 11, 2006 9:01 pm
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Hi all, Enclosed is the UNESCO contribution to the forthcoming debate at the 8th AdHoc meeting on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities...
Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/in_depth/5274354.stm UN agrees on disability treaty text By Geoff Adams-Spink An international...
Gregor, when they worked on statistics of the disability population, does this include all the poor beggars in India and other countries? In the '70s-'80s when...
Ironsides
ironsides@...
Aug 30, 2006 8:01 pm
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Murder-suicide in Penticton Yesterday, August 29, an elderly man shot his wife who was diagnosed with the early stages of Alzeimer's disease. Media reports...
Alex Schadenberg
euthanasiaprevention@...
Aug 30, 2006 8:02 pm
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Alex, People who don't know much about Alzheimer's tend to group all the patients into one class. I worked in a lab for 5 years working on Alzheimer's. My ...
Dear Karen, IT is great to hear from you. You are so wise and so thoughtful. I hope everything is going well with you. With best regards, Sally ... From:...
This how my letter appeared in the Globe and Mail today. Alex Not a 'mercy' killing? ALEX SCHADENBERG executive director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition ...
Alex Schadenberg
euthanasiaprevention@...
Sep 1, 2006 3:06 pm
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Alex, Ok this was great. The husband wanted to save himself the bother or the money...I have no sympathy for him. There are too many good caretakers who spend...
Is anybody planning to protest the World Federation of Right to Die Societies conference in Toronto this week - Sept 7 - 10. We only need one or two people...
Alex Schadenberg
euthanasiaprevention@...
Sep 5, 2006 8:52 pm
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In a message dated 9/5/2006 3:58:10 P.M. Central Daylight Time, euthanasiaprevention@... writes: Is anybody planning to protest the World Federation...
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