Comments on: Clerical Snafu Let Accused Coach Killer Go Free http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/clerical-snafu-let-accused-coach-killer-go-free-24666 Celebrity sports gossip since 2001 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:20:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Alan http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/clerical-snafu-let-accused-coach-killer-go-free-24666#comment-100135 Alan Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:45:14 +0000 http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/clerical-snafu-let-accused-coach-killer-go-free-24666#comment-100135 Sounds like a typical Psychiatric Hospital.  I have worked in a couple of those places & while some of the staff are very competent & care about the patients, the majority are just there to make an easy paycheck.  I am a Chemical Dependency Counselor & the so called help drug dependent people receive is a joke.  I was not yet a counselor when I worked in these "Hospitals."  There were several times I was called to be "1 on 1" with a patient because, according to a Psychiatrist, they were suicidal.  These patients had problems, but they were not suicidal.  The reason they were given that label is because that was the only way their insurance company would pay the tab.  I hope a big time investigation is instigated.  Has anybody seen the movie, "The Star Chamber?"  Not a bad concept. Sounds like a typical Psychiatric Hospital.  I have worked in a couple of those places & while some of the staff are very competent & care about the patients, the majority are just there to make an easy paycheck.  I am a Chemical Dependency Counselor & the so called help drug dependent people receive is a joke.  I was not yet a counselor when I worked in these "Hospitals."  There were several times I was called to be "1 on 1" with a patient because, according to a Psychiatrist, they were suicidal.  These patients had problems, but they were not suicidal.  The reason they were given that label is because that was the only way their insurance company would pay the tab.  I hope a big time investigation is instigated. 

Has anybody seen the movie, "The Star Chamber?"  Not a bad concept.

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