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Everybody hurts-even powerful members of Congress.That's why the medical office in the Capitol that cares for members of the House and Senate has a psychiatrist on call when the nation's legislators need a sympathetic ear. This little-known function of the secretive Capitol Office of the Attending Physician, run by the Navy, was exposed in a recent court filing in the case of former Congressman Duke Cunningham, sentenced last week to eight years and four months in prison, after admitting he took $2.4 million in bribes from defense contractors...
...Beverly Hills psychiatrist, at the request by Cunningham's lawyers, wrote in a report for last Friday's sentencing hearing that around the time Cunningham's corrupt activity began to be exposed last year, the Attending Physician's office found that he had "symptoms of severe depression with a 60-pound weight loss" and referred him to "the psychiatrist for the United States Senate and the House of Representatives...
...Experts say it's important for congressmen, like anyone else, to have somewhere to turn when they are distraught or depressed. "Anybody can have psychiatric problems, the high and the mighty as well as the average Joe," says Dr. Steven Sharfstein, a Baltimore psychiatrist who is president of the American Psychiatric Association. "Psychiatry is good for anybody who needs...
...Live action short film. The most unpredictable category. The prominent film is Your Time Is Up, about a psychiatrist (Kevin Pollak) who learns he?s dying and decides to tell his patients the unvarnished truth about themselves...
...Interrogations at Guantanamo have often included a Behavioral Science Consultation Team, known as a BSCT, on which a psychologist, psychiatrist or other medical professionals monitor a prisoner's ability to withstand rigorous questioning. They may also suggest methods to make the interrogation more effective. The Red Cross and the American Medical Association have both objected to the use of doctors to aid interrogations as a violation of medical ethics, a charge the Pentagon rejects. As Gutierrez puts it: "Al-Qahtani is afraid of doctors because these are the people who would revive him and send him back into the same...