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politicat

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13. No, it's not.

Reply to ellisonz (Reply #10)

Wed Dec 19, 2012, 11:08 AM

Dec 2012

If someone is ultimately interested in the public policy aspects of public health, that person has to be in the trenches, at least for a while. One can only assess the true state of the system by seeing how the system affects those with the least power . The best advocates we have know the system from the inside -- because their experience has made it visceral for them.

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Dispatch from the trenches of public mental health. [View all] politicat Dec 2012 OP

Wow theinquisitivechad Dec 2012 #1

Having been on both sides of this conflagration, cliffordu Dec 2012 #2

Boy, I could tell some stories... joeunderdog Dec 2012 #3

+1000 politicat Dec 2012 #18

Politicat, I read your comment last night and it is just as awful to read it again tonight. nenagh Dec 2012 #4

All systems are accretive - policy collects like barnacles on a hull. politicat Dec 2012 #17

Yup, nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #5

Thank you, politicat. K&R nt Mnemosyne Dec 2012 #6

"...half of the client load is situational." Fire Walk With Me Dec 2012 #7

Thanks! I <3 Project Los Angeles 50 politicat Dec 2012 #16

Big KR. I have a friend who's a social worker who told me a similar story. The system is about HiPointDem Dec 2012 #8

K&R'd! snot Dec 2012 #9

K & R ellisonz Dec 2012 #10

No, it's not. politicat Dec 2012 #13

What? You mean it's not like on TV? lindysalsagal Dec 2012 #11

+1000 politicat Dec 2012 #14

My experience was not in the public mental health system, with a private physician and hospital. Denninmi Dec 2012 #12

Please talk about it. politicat Dec 2012 #15

Thanks. Denninmi Dec 2012 #19

So much of the system is geared to handing out drugs. So little to other therapies. KittyWampus Dec 2012 #20

so... orthopedics are geared towards handing out casts, and optometry towards glasses. politicat Dec 2012 #21