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Michael Jackson paranoid, anxious, obsessive, director says
Five days before he died, Michael Jackson was in such a sorry mental state that the director of his ill-fated “This Is It” concert series said he needed a psychiatric evaluation. Kenny Ortega sent the June 20, 2009, email to Randy Phillips,...
Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Conrad Murray, Los Angeles International Airport, Michael Jackson, AEG
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DSM-5 is here: Are psychiatrists ready to stop arguing about it?
Finally. After many contentious years, the American Psychiatric Assn. has unleashed DSM-5, the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. If you know one thing about the DSM, it’s probably that this book is...
Tags: Mental Health, Adultery, University of New Mexico, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Science and Technology
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Sgt. John Russell: Wrenching testimony in penalty phase
This post has been corrected. See the note at the bottom for details.JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. — Lt. Col. Michael Jones was the last psychiatrist to see Sgt. John Russell before the sergeant returned to the Iraq mental health clinic with an M-16 rifle, killing two doctors and three other fellow servicemen. In...Tags: Justice System, Human Interest, Military Justice, Crime, Law and Justice, Mental Health
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Five killings at Camp Liberty in Iraq: Calculation or despair?
JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, WASH. — The court-martial of Army Sgt. John Russell concluded Saturday with a military judge asked to decide whether the 14-year Army veteran was deluded by depression and despair as he shot five fellow service members in...
Tags: Prosecution, Health and Safety at Work, Justice System, Military Justice, Crime, Law and Justice
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Court-martial opens for sergeant who killed 5 U.S. troops in Iraq
JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. — Army Sgt. John Russell opened fire on U.S. mental health workers at a combat stress center in Iraq out of revenge after doctors said he was not eligible to leave the Army, prosecutors said Monday at the opening of...
Tags: Prosecution, Health and Safety at Work, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Military Justice
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Allan Arbus, wise psychiatrist on TV's 'MASH,' dies at 95
Allan Arbus, an actor best known for his recurring role as the wise, caring psychiatrist who ministered to shellshocked surgeons and troops on the hit television series "MASH," died Friday at his home in Los Angeles, his family said. He was 95. The...
Tags: Medical Specialization, Health and Medical Professionals, Psychiatry, Chicago Fire (tv program), Futurama (tv program)
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Allan Arbus dies at 95; played psychiatrist on 'MASH'
As the wise, dryly humorous psychiatrist caring for shellshocked surgeons and troops in the hit television series "MASH," actor Allan Arbus was so convincing that at least one colleague assumed he had expertise in the medical specialty. In 1973, the...
Tags: Celebrities, Alan Alda, Heart Failure, Medical Specialization, Health and Medical Professionals
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Army sergeant pleads guilty, describes killing 5 fellow servicemen
JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. — U.S. Army Sgt. John Russell pleaded guilty Monday to second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of five fellow service members and the attempted murder of another in Iraq in 2009 after the government agreed not to...
Tags: Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Mental Health, Shootings, Health and Medical Professionals
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Did the system fail a soldier?
SHERMAN, Texas — Sgt. John Russell designed his new house here so there would be room for everyone: for him and his wife, Mandy, his wife's parents and his own. There was a doggie door for Louie and Queenie — "the little ones," he called...
Tags: Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Mental Health, University of Pennsylvania, Witnesses
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Four years after Camp Liberty killings, families losing patience
SEATTLE — On the day Sgt. John Russell allegedly walked into the mental health clinic at Camp Liberty in Baghdad and shot five U.S. service members to death, Pfc. Jacob Barton was just signing in at the front desk. It was the day after Mother’...
Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Medical Specialization, Murder, Psychiatry, U.S. Army
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Justice vs. vengeance in Aurora
Prosecutors have rebuffed an offer by James E. Holmes, the accused killer of 12 people in a movie theater rampage in Aurora, Colo., last year, to plead guilty in exchange for a sentence of life in prison. In deciding instead to seek the death penalty, the...
Tags: Prosecution, Justice System, Defendants, Crime, Law and Justice, Punishment
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Jana Winter: Facing jail time for doing her job
Jana Winter, an investigative reporter for Fox News, faces the prospect of serious jail time for being a good journalist. Seriously. Most of the accounts you may read won't describe her predicament quite that way. But make no mistake: A state judge...
Tags: Politics, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, News Media, Fox News Channel (tv network)
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