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Editor’s Column/February 2003 The
budget crunch is becoming more and more of a reality as the days go
by. I’m hearing people say: “Would they really cut waiver services
for the developmentally disabled, MA-EPD, day care subsidies, GAMC,
eligibility criteria or wages to the PCA program?” Well, the answer
appears to be “YES!” The Department of Human Services carries such
a huge portion of the spending that its services will have to be cut. .
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Mental Illness/Brain Disorders “SuperBike” Mike and “The Man With Two Brains” by Pete Feigal Being
a psychiatrist sometimes seems to be right up there in job respect with
Mafia lawyer, Enron accountant and Vikings wide receiver. Even within
medicine itself, psychiatrists appear—on the surface—to be the Rodney
Dangerfields of the profession. I once heard it said by an obviously
modest surgeon, .
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Spirituality and Disability Peace—One Person At A Time by Ellen Houghton I
recently saw the movie “The Gangs of New York.” I won’t say I enjoyed
it, but I would recommend it as an excellent history lesson. It was
one of those movies where you leave saying, “We just never learn.”
It is about generations passing their prejudices, ideals, feelings and
values on to the next generation—and that generation blindly perpetuating
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