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Health professionals split over allowing psychologists to prescribe drugs
Week in and week out for the last five years, Marlin Hoover has boarded a plane for New Mexico, where he sees patients Monday through Wednesday. Then, the psychologist flies home Thursday to treat patients at his southwest suburban office in Tinley Park....
Tags: Illinois General Assembly, Diabetes, Oak Park, Hinsdale, Don Harmon
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Editorial: Slow down on prescription power
Illinois psychologists aren't doctors, but they're seeking one of medicine's most potent tools: the power to prescribe drugs for their patients. The psychologists scored a victory in April, when the state Senate approved a bill that would make...
Tags: Internists, Nursing, Diabetes, Psychologists, Chemical Industry
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Five killings at Camp Liberty in Iraq: Calculation or despair?
JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, WASH. — The court-martial of Army Sgt. John Russell concluded Saturday with a military judge asked to decide whether the 14-year Army veteran was deluded by depression and despair as he shot five fellow service members in...
Tags: Health and Safety at Work, Justice System, Prosecution, Military Justice, Shootings
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Sgt. John Russell: Wrenching testimony in penalty phase
This post has been corrected. See the note at the bottom for details.JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. — Lt. Col. Michael Jones was the last psychiatrist to see Sgt. John Russell before the sergeant returned to the Iraq mental health clinic with an M-16 rifle, killing two doctors and three other fellow servicemen. In...Tags: Justice System, Military Justice, Human Interest, Science and Technology, Health
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Connecticut Lags In Mental Health Screening For Children
The Hartford CourantSelenia Velez remembers the near-daily phone calls from the pre-school, alerting her that her 2-year-old son had acted out aggressively and needed to be picked up immediately. The calls went on for months, as Velez, 27, of Hartford, and her husband...Tags: Health and Safety at Work, Social Sciences, Medicaid, Pediatrics, Culture
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Release Of Wife Killer From Psychiatric Hospital Hotly Debated Again
The Hartford CourantThe state Psychiatric Security Review Board Friday heard competing testimony on the issue of whether to release wife-killer David Messenger into a Hartford residential treatment center. Messenger was found not guilty by reason of insanity after killing...Tags: Yale School of Medicine, Yale University, Health and Medical Professionals, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut)
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Court-martial opens for sergeant who killed 5 U.S. troops in Iraq
JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. — Army Sgt. John Russell opened fire on U.S. mental health workers at a combat stress center in Iraq out of revenge after doctors said he was not eligible to leave the Army, prosecutors said Monday at the opening of...Tags: Courts-Martial, U.S. Army, Health and Safety at Work, Prosecution, Justice System
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Four years after Camp Liberty killings, families losing patience
SEATTLE — On the day Sgt. John Russell allegedly walked into the mental health clinic at Camp Liberty in Baghdad and shot five U.S. service members to death, Pfc. Jacob Barton was just signing in at the front desk. It was the day after Mother’...
Tags: U.S. Army, Baghdad (Iraq), Hospitals and Clinics, Medical Specialization, Health and Medical Professionals
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Valley Police Beat: Psychiatrist threatened
EL CENTRO — Death threats to an Imperial County Behavioral Health psychiatrist were reported by the agency late Friday night. An unknown woman called the agency shortly before 11 p.m., according to El Centro police call logs, and said she was...Tags: Fires, Medical Specialization, Health and Medical Professionals, Psychiatry
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Justice vs. vengeance in Aurora
Prosecutors have rebuffed an offer by James E. Holmes, the accused killer of 12 people in a movie theater rampage in Aurora, Colo., last year, to plead guilty in exchange for a sentence of life in prison. In deciding instead to seek the death penalty, the...
Tags: James Holmes, Prosecution, Justice System, Court Preliminary, Punishment
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State Senate OKS measure on recordings of police interrogations
Illinois would allow audio and video recordings of police interrogations in all felony cases to be used in court under a proposal the Senate passed Thursday to expand current law that requires taping in murder cases. The recordings would not be required...
Tags: Pat Quinn, Justice System, Prosecution, Laws, Harvard University
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Allan Arbus, wise psychiatrist on TV's 'MASH,' dies at 95
Allan Arbus, an actor best known for his recurring role as the wise, caring psychiatrist who ministered to shellshocked surgeons and troops on the hit television series "MASH," died Friday at his home in Los Angeles, his family said. He was 95. The...
Tags: Obituaries, Futurama (tv program), Heart Failure, MASH (tv program), NBC (tv network)
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