Consult suicidology.org and afps.org. I have had thoughts of killing myself which, fortunately, I got out of by myself. But what if someone doesn't?

New York has approximately 16,000 nurse practitioners (NPs) across the state. However, all of them are required to have a written collaborative agreement with a physician. As the implementation of Obamacare looms in January 2014, NPs are one solution to provide primary care to the influx on new patients into the system. Nurse practitioners are registered nurses with additional schooling, education, and training. Nurse practitioners have nearly a 50 year history of providing high-quality, patient-centered and cost-effective care. Nurse practitioners can be found across all healthcare settings and write prescriptions, make diagnoses, manage chronic conditions, provide well-care and health promotional efforts. NPs will continue to collaborate with all members of the healthcare team as needed. However, the requirement of the written collaborative agreement is a an unnecessary barrier to practice.

In 1970, a medical team at the “U of M” successfully performed surgery on a pair of brothers who both wanted to be women, and the successful surgery garnered substantial newspaper attention in places as far from Minnesota as St. Petersburg, Florida. This information trickled through the media, and even wound up in (misinformed) advice column of Ann Landers.(4) The columnist warned readers of the St. Petersburg Times that University “authorities were not enthusiastic about the results” eight days before the sisters proudly sat for a photo with the same publication.( For some reason the U of Minnesota has stopped doing Gender reassignment surgery

yes i have lyme disease aam on ssi. i am also an msw health and mental health. i cannot get any treatment in the city of Stockton, CA and there is no insurance anywhere near that accepts insurance or Medi-cal. it is a crime against humanity as many of us are dying from it in the chronic stage right before our GP's eyes. it is pandamic in most states and in California. It is growing faster than aides. And we are left to suffer in excruciating pain, back, heart and brain and to die.

I have thousands of dollars of medical bills from dozens of doctors for the same visit, charity care was approved by the hospital, but these doctors aren't obliged to take that. Now I face possible financial ruin because I had a medical problem...

Making sure everyone receives affordable healthcare insurance while reducing spending and the comfort of knowing that your loved ones are protected.

Luckily, I am not personally affected and neither is my family.

Reform The Affordable Care Act

This petition is to put the heat on the mean and cruel Republicans in the State Legislature who have voted to NOT accept Federal Medicaid Assistance.

Dr. Perez will be losing his privileges at Novant Health due to the lack of a covering physician. He needs your support in showing the hospital that he should be able to maintain his privileges.

After the violation of the 2010 President mandate this medical facility should have all federal funding pulled. The incident involving Roger Gorley, whom had medical Power of Attorney for his partner, goes against the mandate President Obama issued.

Between 2005 and 2009 — at 23 hospitals throughout the country run by prominent universities including Yale, Stanford, Brown and Duke — 1,316 premature infants were the subjects of a government-funded clinical trial where some received more oxygen than others. The parents of these helpless research subjects were never informed that some newborns would be at increased risk of blindness, lung injury, brain damage or even death. Add your name to our petition demanding that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius take immediate steps to address this grievous ethical breakdown.