Re: Paul Robert-Sullivan Burton MD; NYS License Number: 243434; Date of NYS Licensure: 03-14-2007
Twittering One
> Paul Burton MD should have been charged with CRIMINAL acts in New York
> State, in regard to what happened to me while he was my "physician" in
> Bellevue Hospital, after I was placed there and my civil rights were
> taken away from me and I was physically abused while he watched 2 feet
> away from me, and did NOTHING.
>
> Instead, he is admiteed to a post graduate forensics program, because
> he had NYU Medical School's backing to do so.
>
> My own friends and family helped cover this up and kept me in
> isolation for a year afterward, when I should have gotten proper
> medical attention for these injuries I was too traumatized to
> understand.
>
> That was 3.5 yeara ago; and today no lawyer or Legal Aid
> representative or counsel will communicate with me.
>
> Paul Burton's clinical director, David Ginsberg MD, saw me in Winter
> 2007; and did NOTHING to ensure I regained proper medical care and
> appropriate safety.
>
> Paul Burton's RESIDENCY DIRECTOR Carol Bernstein MD, of NYU MC, who
> ignored me for one year after I reported this abuse, later got elected
> to PRESIDENT of the Amercian Psychiatric Association; Bernsteain
> should STEP DOWN. Instead, my complaints to the Ethics Commitee of the
> APA have gone unanswered.
>
> [& now I cannot even access my email at a public library, so I am
> acting like a luntic and posting this because -- the NYTS editorial on
> TWITTER TAPPING this past Sunday claims law enforcement reads these
> groups for criminal activities.
>
> Virginia H. Hooper
>
> _____________________________
> Paul Robert-Sullivan Burton MD;
> NYS License Number: 243434;
> Date of NYS Licensure: 03-14-2007
>
> UNIV CA SF SCH OF MED 06-30-2010 FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY
> NYU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE 06-30-2009 PSYCHIATRY
>
> http://www.nydoctorprofile.com/results_education.jsp
My career was destroyed in addition to these physical injuries; I was
NEVER given any choice in these actions.
Twittering One
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December 21, 2009
New York Times
After Son’s Suicide, Mother Again Channels Grief Into Action
By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT
IRVINGTON, N.Y. — More often than not, the hounding questions — those
emerging from curiosity, pain and love — invade her thoughts. Some are
common to any familial death; others are particular to her more recent
tragedy: that of her son’s suicide.
...
It came as a shock to anyone who knew Andrew to learn that he took his
own life, she said. On Nov. 2, he climbed over a glass panel on the
10th floor of the Bobst Library at New York University, where he was a
junior, and jumped.
Now Ms. Williamson-Noble finds herself seeking solace by going back to
the method she created to deal with her last son’s death: pouring
herself into educating others about how her son died.
...
N.Y.U. received a lot of attention after four students committed
suicide in 2004. Andrew is the only student who has committed suicide
this year.
Ms. Williamson-Noble said she was angry with the university because
she believed it tried “to sweep Andrew’s death under the rug.”
“A student wanted to have a vigil at the library where it happened so
he and others could acknowledge Andrew’s life to pause and reflect,”
she said. “It was relayed to me that the school did not want to allow
it because they did not want to glorify the event. Within hours of the
death they just wanted it all to go back to business as usual.”
...
while it saddens us to hear that our actions or efforts to talk with
our community — guided though they were by the best expert advice on
healing our community and reducing the recognized possibility of
suicide contagion ...
(more)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/21/nyregion/21suicide.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion
Twittering One
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December 20, 2009
New York Times
Letters to the Editor
What to Say After a Soldier’s Suicide
To the Editor:
Re “Obama’s Condolence Problem,” by Paul Steinberg (Op-Ed, Dec. 12):
Dr. Steinberg says President Obama should consider maintaining the
current practice in which condolence letters from the president are
not sent to the families of soldiers who die by suicide. This is
fundamentally flawed.
Suicide is a path out of pain, an extreme act by a disordered,
hopeless spirit and psyche that see no alternative. To suffer so
greatly deserves the empathy of all and, in military cases, that of
our commander in chief.
Dr. Steinberg talks about maintaining the stigma of suicide and
avoiding glorification of such loss. But expressions of empathy do not
encourage suicide. By offering overt and public compassion, we may
help make it safer for others contemplating such acts to give voice to
their suffering.
Kristine A. Munholland
Portland, Ore., Dec. 13, 2009
The writer is the bereavement coordinator for Kaiser Permanente
Hospice and an adjunct assistant professor of social work at Portland
State University.
Twittering One
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WHO are your "experts," NYU President John Sexton?
Your university & their experts certainly ruined MY life.
I want CRIMINAL CHARGES brought.
Virginia H. Hooper
Manhattan
10016
Twittering One
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AND SOME SAY YOUR ACTIONS WERE CRIMINALLY INJURIOUS IN THE STATE OF
NEW YORK
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Psychiatric News January 1, 2010
Volume 45 Number 1 Page 18
© American Psychiatric Association
Clinical & Research News
Many Involuntary Patients Later Say They Agree With Intervention
Joan Arehart-Treichel
How do seriously mentally ill patients feel later about treatment
that
was forced on them? No study appears to have addressed this question—
until now.
Would a severely ill psychiatric patient thank you later for forcing
medication on him or her?
If the patient regained full mental capacity as a result, chances are
good that he or she would. But if the patient did not, chances are
fair that he or she would not.
Twittering One
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Also so of note today ~
Charges of GROSS NEGLIGENCE IN DEVIATION OF STANDARD OF CARE, sited
against physician present in death of Michael Jackson ...
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January 8, 2010
New York Times
Deal Made to Monitor Brooklyn Hospital
By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS
New York City, the Justice Department and lawyers representing
mentally ill patients at Kings County Hospital Center in Brooklyn,
where a 49-year-old woman died in 2008 while waiting for treatment,
said on Thursday that they had reached an agreement allowing a federal
judge to monitor conditions at the hospital.
In a 45-minute conference call on Thursday with Judge Kiyo A.
Matsumoto of Federal District Court in Brooklyn, lawyers for the city,
the federal government and the patients confirmed that they had agreed
on a consent decree that would require changes at the hospital and a
timeline for enacting them. The conference call was broadcast in the
courtroom.
The judge indicated that she was prepared to sign the agreement, even
as she expressed some reservations, saying that some parts seemed
“vague” and “ill defined.”
The proposed settlement comes after two and a half years of bitter
litigation over conditions at the hospital. The lawsuit, filed in May
2007, called the psychiatric unit of Kings County, a city-run
hospital, a “chamber of filth, decay, indifference and danger.”
It was filed by the Mental Hygiene Legal Service, the New York Civil
Liberties Union and the law firm Kirkland & Ellis on behalf of all
mentally ill patients receiving psychiatric services at the hospital.
The suit gained momentum in June 2008, when Esmin Green, a Jamaican
immigrant who had worked as a caretaker for children and the elderly,
died about 24 hours after arriving by ambulance at the psychiatric
emergency room, where doctors said she was schizophrenic and ordered
that she be committed.
She was left in the waiting room, where she eventually collapsed and
died because of blood clots that began in her legs and traveled to her
lungs, according to the medical examiner.
A surveillance video released by the civil liberties union showed Ms.
Green lying on the floor for more than an hour. During that time, a
guard went in to check on her by wheeling his chair across the floor
while still sitting in it, and another staff member prodded her with a
foot.
Notes in Ms. Green’s medical chart claimed that she had been sitting
quietly or had been in the bathroom at times when the surveillance
video showed that she had been lying on the floor, according to
subsequent investigations.
Shortly after the lawsuit was filed, the Justice Department opened an
independent investigation.
(more)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/08/nyregion/08hospital.html
Twittering One
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YOU BET there should be from BLOOMBERG et et;
After what they did to me too.
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“There is a fundamental sense from the top administrative levels that
there needs to be accountability at all levels, and that’s a welcome
change,” Beth Haroules, a lawyer for the New York Civil Liberties
Union and co-counsel for the plaintiffs, told the court.
~ NY Times