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It's not easy to get Michael....and it has nothing to do with lifestyle....you are a smart person....go on over to MAMA's and try to get the card...if it is so easy....why don't you have one?  And...what kind medical provider in family medicine are you?  I don't know many real doctors who would speak this way about potential pain relief for their patients.

posted 3 years, 6 months ago
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Go check it out yourself....go over to MAMA's in SE Portland.....try to get a OMMP card without two years of private sector medical records and approval by the on-site doctor....you won't get past the front door.

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Typical law enforcement point of view from the Clatsop County "officer."  Laughing when the interview started...using words like "legitimate doctor"....scams.."you guys"....."Obamas latest"...and other just ignorant views.   So, all folks who take pain medication stay home from work?  It took two years, with legitimate doctors for me to gain the OMMP card for acute and chronic pain....just more of the same from the law enforcement folks...they will never understand OMMP, just like they will never understand weaker members of society..such as the mentally ill...they have such a great track record out in Clatsop.....ignornance is bliss for these folks...they are so brainwashed....do us all a favor...focus on meth users and follow the OMMP rules....your war on drugs has been lost for years and it's time to move resources away from your efforts towards real public safety issues....jeez....get informed ok?

posted 3 years, 6 months ago
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Here ya go....
Governor
Governor's Staff
Chancellor
Chancellor's staff
Department of Education
Staff
Office of Community Colleges
Staff
LBCC Board of Education
LBCC President
Staff
Vice Presidents
Staff
Deans
Staff
Directors
Staff
Department Chairs
Program Coordinators
Senior Faculty
Adjunct Faculty
The Student!

And you missed the point about the Governor's salary.....I think it is ridiculous that we pay over 100 higher education employees MORE than the Governor. 80 percent of the Oregon budget for Higher Ed goes towards adminstration of the programs.

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I have met with, and will meet again tonight with Sen. Frank Morse, Rep. Andy Olsen and Sara Gelser at our town meeting. After spending 25 years in the community college system I am calling for a complete review of the management structure in Oregon Higher Education. There are over ten layers of management between the Governor's office and the first community college or University student. I believe the manager to worker bee ratio is out of whack and the last time this issue was addressed was in a Peat Marwick and Mitchell report back in 1995 that suggested the same. Even little LBCC has 17 Vice Presidents, Deans and Directors on staff. The Walmartinization of Oregon Higher Education has been the goal of upper management for quite some time.....I see the movement towards the use of part timers and adjuncts while maintaining the status quo at the management level as not a good investment of our tax dollars. I see the payment of over half a million dollars per year to University President's as ridiculous....this is not the Curtis Mathis mentality..that is..the most expensive TV sets in the world...but worth it....I see the fact that over 100 salaried employees in Higher Education make more than our Governor as ridiculous....I am asking that administrators validate their existence in the system....show us how your efforts add to the bottom line of our colleges and universities....prove to us that half million dollar salaries are justified while folks are cut off mental health programs in our State....show us that the current management structure and the related costs are worth these huge salaries in terms of what we get for their performance....I see tremendous waste at the management level...we have far too many Presidents, Vice Presidents, Deans, Directors, Assistants to all of the above, program coordinators, department chairs....this is not a partisan issue...both sides of the isle in Oregon can look for a change in the philosophy of overmanaged systems.

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I was a public school teacher in Oregon for 23 years.....this is a question I always wanted to ask Sizemore....was there something that happened to you while you were in school that makes you dislike teachers so much? For over 20 years we have dealt with Sizemore....every single election it was something against the teachers...measure 5...you name it....so...why does Bill dislike public school teachers so much? what happened?

posted 4 years, 6 months ago
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There was no help. My son had his first breakdown as a High School Junior in 1997....but, now he tells me he heard voices at a very early age.
He has paranoid schizophrenia.....

In Benton County....there was not much help at all. The main psych.
doctor was the only one who took the time and effort to really look for a diagnosis. Then Benton County cut services....so, we moved my child over to Bend to live with his mom....he had continuing breakdowns and there were only 14 beds in all of Deschutes Country....for mentally ill folks.

We have been, with my son, to Eastern Oregon Psych Hospital, the Oregon State Hospital in Salem, the Heeran Center in Eugene and another center down in Klamath Falls.....THERE IS NO COORDINATION between agencies! NOTHING!

The Klamath County Mental Health and Judge wanted to release my son.....they had no records, they were not forwarded...he made his own diagnosis in ten minutes.....and this is the problem....there IS NO COORDINATION!

I have had to fight, tooth and nail, with every part of this system since day one....including Social Security and every single health care provider....the outcomes of schizophrenia? No socialization, isolation, continual committment, huge weight swings due to medications, NO LONG TERM PLAN WHATSOEVER FOR ANYTHING OTHER THAN MEDS....IT's all MEDS, MEDS and more MEDS.

Educate the community? In Corvallis? You would think a higher educated community would have a better social net for this kind of thing...no way....it was a revolving door to the hospital, and case workers who really ought to retire.....back and forth....no plan, no system, no caring.....KAIROS was a great idea.....and lost the funding....

What positive, long term view of the future, can a schizophrenic have?
How are the days spent in the hospital? MEDS, MEDS and more MEDS.
There is no hope.....have you been to the Heeran center in Eugene?
There is no hope until there is a cure. Get real.

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Thank you so very much for your work and right on the money comments....our family experiences with the system have been a nightmare....and our son has the benefit of a family who will intervene and work as case managers if necessary...how many other families have this experience? Benton County cut funding and we became case managers.....every step of the process, for ten years, has been incredibly difficult....from the ACLU, old facilities, continually changing staff, old medications used to save money, Social Security, Pendleton, Salem, Klamath Falls.....all of it...is broken. As a State we made the decision to close Dammasch and integrate (to save money)....and the State is full of NIMBYS...until one points out to other locals that released criminals are all over the City....

the first thing one sees when one enters EOPC in Pendleton....the restraint room.

What about a single system? How about the same doctor for maybe, six months?
How about the same support staff for a year?

I do believe in the end we will be judged by how we treat weaker members of our society....and thank you for your work Tim.

posted 5 years, 3 months ago
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What would Tom McCall say about the state of affairs in Oakridge, Philomath, Scio, Mill City, Mehama, Lyons, Gilchrist, Mapleton and all the other areas of my State that have been neglected, not only today on your program, but for decades.....now, with the loss of Timber Payments to the counties...what is the plan? All I see, for the past two decades, is division in my State...every single issue...division....what would McCall do?

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