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To: Paul Senior who wrote (33599)	2/21/2009 12:52:56 PM
From: Broken_Clock	1 Recommendation Respond to of 78765

All too true Paul. We, otoh, look forward to Thursday nights when out 4 year old grandson spends the night so our daughter can work. He survived a horrific car crash when he was 9 months old. Literally thrown out of the car seat on the highway and had the car land on and crush his skull. A month of ICU in Honolulu and he miraculously survived. Today he is about a year behind others his age but seems to be mostly fine. We went from "he's going to die", to "he's going to be a vegetable...you should think about letting him go" to having a real miracle child. That is the thing that keeps us going. We still see some good happening in this world. Less and less from the gov't, i'll grant you.

To: Paul Senior who wrote (33599)	2/21/2009 1:47:12 PM
From: Madharry	Respond to of 78765

Your comment strikes a cord of memory in me. I remember how my wife heard some wonderful speaker talk about research work that he did involving non-drug psychiatric therapy. My wife asked him where she could read about it and he intimated that it would be very difficult because the whole system is geared toward psychiatric medications for patients rather than alternatives. That is where the funding is, hence that is where the research dollars are spent, those are the types of researchers and professors hired by universities, those are the editors hired to write the textbooks and edit the professional journals. Its just one vicious circle all geared toward perpetuating psychiatric medications as the treatment of choice depite that toxicity of drugs, the side effects and the interactive issues with other medications and foods. Then other therapies are poo-pooed in that they have not passed scientific testing yet there are no dollars for it. There is also local influence pedalling. Our local health system managed to get some law passed in Mass. so that they could remain a virtual monopoly in this area. A competitive radiaology group had to move out of state to work.