Oh, Ken.... that's so sad!

I know we as a society tend to blame the addicts themselves for their 
problems but once they take responsibility and want to clean up, it seems to 
me we should be supporting them a lot better!

Kat

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From: "ken barber" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 8:34 PM
Newsgroups:   bit.listserv.c-palsy
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: detox

> kendall,
> i was offering to pay these jerks myself and they'd
> just say "he's not one of our patients."
> if he'd committed a crime he'd have been treated
> better.
>
> --- "Kendall D. Corbett" <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>> Ken,
>>
>> It's not easy, is it?  I'm frequently faced on a
>> professional basis with
>> finding resources for people to get things they need
>> to live with their
>> disabilities, and the system that's supposed to care
>> often doesn't
>>
>> Not in complete defense of doctors, but in many
>> cases, especially with
>> inpatient care, their hands are tied by insurance
>> companies.  I know he is
>> of a different generation (before health care was
>> driven by insurors), but
>> my dad often provided care for people free of
>> charge, or on a "barter"
>> system.
>>
>>  There was one guy who had a really bad head injury
>> that dad took care of
>> who was an artist.  Because of the head injury, the
>> guy thought he'd never
>> be able to paint again.  Dad gave him a photograph
>> of my granddad, and asked
>> him to paint a portrait from it.  It took the guy
>> over a year to paint it,
>> but it was beautiful, and occupied a place of honor
>> in my grandmothers house
>> until she died (22 years after granddad, and has
>> hung in my parents house
>> since.  It restored the artists faith in his
>> ability, and may now (30 years
>> later), be worth at least three times as much as the
>> fees dad would have
>> charged.
>>
>> I'm frequently faced on a professional basis with
>> finding resources for
>> people to get things they need to live with their
>> disabilities, and the
>> system that's supposed to care often doesn't.
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 7:55 PM, ken barber
>> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> > i have in the last 2 weeks had the delightful
>> > oppotunity to try to get a person into detox who
>> had
>> > no insurance, no money, and no job. it has let me
>> see
>> > the good in humanity and has let me see quite a
>> bit of
>> > the worse. i'd like to put most doctors now in
>> with
>> > lawyers and bankers in my group of worthless
>> > professionals.
>> > --
>> > Kendall
>> >
>> > An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's
>> redundant!)
>> >
>> > The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;
>> the unreasonable one
>> > persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
>> Therefore, all progress
>> > depends on the unreasonable man.
>> >
>> > -George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
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