Health Care: Problems and Solutions

The following is an analysis of the problems with American medical system as gained from multiple standpoints, and some proposed solutions to the same.- The lack of basic general government care is a problem especially for the working poor, but now increasingly for the middle...

Cop's "Jungle Monkey" Comments Sign of Color Aroused Illness?

Officer's Extreme Color Aroused  Ideation, Emotion and Behavior Point Toward Extreme Color Aroused Disorder A Boston, MA police officer, Justin L. Barrett, has been fired after writing an e-mail to a Boston Globe columnist in which he called Harvard University'...

Have psychiatric wards changed?

"If you found yourself locked up against your will in a psychiatric ward, you would probably do your best to get out. But in 1969 a group of people did just the opposite — they tried to get in. A young American psychologist called David Rosenhan persuaded seven friends...

Hundreds die in 'hidden world' of mental hospitals

"Hundreds of people are dying every year while sectioned under the Mental Health Act, the Observer can reveal. New figures released by the Ministerial Council on Deaths in Custody show that in the past 10 years 3,540 of those detained in NHS facilities, including...