Word: psychiatrists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hence most of the refugees simply sit and wait. For many, the sense of uncertainty will not end even with release from the camps and settlement in an American community. Says John Champlin, a Napa Valley, Calif., psychiatrist who is married to a Vietnamese: "Inevitably, everyone will have some sort of emotional crisis, probably within six months to a year. And within ten years, at least half will have tried to go back...
...charged with attacking a woman with a wrench as she stepped off a bus in St. Petersburg, Fla. A jury acquitted him. At 21, he drove through four Detroit suburbs firing a gun at women. He wounded two, and was billed by local newspapers as "the phantom sniper." A psychiatrist testified in court that "he is unreasonably hostile toward women, and this makes it very possible that he might very well kill a person." Taylor was declared insane and committed to Michigan's Ionia State Hospital, and three years later was transferred to the Lafayette Clinic in Detroit...
...Psychiatrists are supposed to be society's healers-comforting guides for the confused, pacifiers of the violent. Sometimes, though, they do not seem to be caretakers of the disturbed so much as their targets. Whether or not attacks by patients on psychiatrists are on the rise nationwide, concern about them seems to be more widespread today than ever before. At one institution, the Massachusetts Mental Health Center in Boston, assaults on doctors have risen by 20% to 30% in the past two years. To judge by recent reports of broken noses, stab wounds, fractured jaws and other injuries...
...associated with fallen angels. The modern heir of these model wetheads is the submarine captain, particularly the German U-boat commander of World War II. With his beard, shabby sweater, and a little help from Hollywood, he cuts a theatrical figure that falls somewhere between cruel, cynical buccaneer and psychiatrist on summer vacation...
...nine ghetto clinics. These operators are suspected of submitting forged invoices and persuading doctors in their clinics to match the invoices with phony treatment charts. The case, which could involve as many as 100 physicians, is believed to have cost Medicaid $4 million. A San Jose, Calif, psychiatrist recently went to jail because he would regularly see eight or nine mental patients together, then bill Medi-Cal for separate sessions. Numerous indictments of doctors, clinic operators, druggists and other Medicaid providers are expected in Illinois...