Tag: diabetes
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What’s Killing Americans and Making Them Sick: DIABETES
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2024 (May 1, 2024) — Diabetes, the eighth leading cause of death in the United States, is a significant public health concern, with profound impacts on morbidity, mortality, and the overall well-being of affected individuals. The disease’s complex nature leads to a myriad of health complications that place burdens…
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CoreCivic Abuses Prisoner
“CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT” by Robert Z. Whipple, III, ©2019 (Oct. 23, 2019) — [Editor’s Note: The following email was sent to TDOC Commissioner Tony Parker; TDOC Communications Director Neysa Taylor; CoreCivic CEO Damon Hininger and other company officials; and more than a dozen members of the media, including this reporter. CoreCivic, formerly Corrections Corporation…
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Inmate Calls Out TDOC for “Medical Malpractice”
“I DON’T WANT TO DIE IN HERE JUST TO SAVE THEM MONEY” by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 10, 2018) — An inmate at one of Tennessee’s ten state-run prisons wrote in a letter received Tuesday that his diabetes and diabetic neuropathy have been under-treated with the purpose of saving the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) money.…
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Father of Inmate Reports Diabetic Shoes Finally Received
AFTER HE IS FORCED TO PAY FOR THEM by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 6, 2018) — On Tuesday evening, Mr. Robert Z. Whipple, father of a Tennessee prison inmate by the same name, reported that his son finally received the diabetic shoes prescribed for him by a TDOC physician nearly three months ago. Just before Christmas,…
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City of Bridgeport, City Council to Host Free Health Screenings to Raise Awareness for Heart Disease and Diabetes
FIFTH ANNUAL ‘KNOW YOUR NUMBERS’ CAMPAIGN EDUCATES RESIDENTS ABOUT HEALTHY BLOOD PRESSURE, CHOLESTEROL AND BLOOD SUGAR LEVELS from Dalmarys Matos, (203) 576-7201, dalmarys.matos@bridgeportct.gov (Feb. 5, 2018) — Bridgeport, CT – The City of Bridgeport City Council members and The Greater Bridgeport Primary Care Action Group will host the fifth annual “Know Your Numbers” campaign with…
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TDOC Inmate Report: Two Medications Again Withheld
“WHY ARE YOU PERIODICALLY STOPPING MY MEDICATION?” by Sharon Rondeau (Jan. 15, 2018) — On the heels of the good news that the heat was turned on in his cell after many weeks of reported “freezing” temperatures within, TDOC inmate Grenda Ray Harmer reported in the same mailing that two of his medications were removed…
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Tennessee Inmate Still Has No Diabetic Shoes
TDOC DENIES MEDICAL NEED, BUT WHY? by Sharon Rondeau (Jan. 4, 2018) — A Tennessee state inmate who was prescribed diabetic shoes more than two months ago still has not received them, according to a mailing received on Wednesday. Robert Z. Whipple, III resides at the Bledsoe County Correctional Complex (BCCX) in Pikeville and has…
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Report: Tennessee Inmate Denied Prescribed Diabetic Shoes
DESPITE DIABETIC NEUROPATHY by Sharon Rondeau (Dec. 3, 2017) — A letter dated November 22, 2017 from Robert Z. Whipple, III, TDOC #399615 received last week relates that the “state’s medical provider” has failed to fill a prescription for diabetic shoes for him ordered by a Dr. Belknap. Whipple is housed at the Bledsoe County…
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Acid Reflux Medication Reinstated to TTCC Inmate
“I’M HAPPY AND FEELING BETTER BECAUSE OF YOUR EFFORTS” by Sharon Rondeau (Mar. 27, 2017) — On Monday The Post & Email learned that a Tennessee prison inmate who had reported the discontinuation approximately a month ago of prescription Prilosec, used to treat acid reflux disease, is once again receiving it. We had first reported…
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Inmate Alleges Abuse of Contracted Workers by Private Prison Operator
AND “FAKE JOBS” FOR INMATES AT TAXPAYERS’ EXPENSE by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 21, 2017) — An inmate at the Trousdale Turner Correctional Complex (TTCC) in Hartsville, TN who has provided a recent number of reports alleging a prisoners-for-profit scheme, violated administrative policies and gang violence at the privately-run prison alleged in a February 4, 2017…
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Report: Lawsuit Accuses CoreCivic, TDOC of Failing to Treat Diabetics at Hartsville Prison
FOLLOWING DOZENS OF REPORTS OF INADEQUATE MEDICAL CARE by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 10, 2017) — The Nashville Scene has reported that a federal lawsuit alleges that private prison operator CoreCivic has failed to provide adequate medical care to diabetics at the Trousdale Turner Correctional Center (TTCC) in Hartsville, TN. The Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC)…
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Report: Potentially-Infectious Inmate Placed in General Population
WITH INMATE ASSIGNED TO DAILY KITCHEN DUTY by LCDR Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III (Ret.), TDOC Inmate #540003 (Feb. 10, 2016) — [Editor’s Note: The following was received by The Post & Email on Tuesday, February 9, 2016, the unredacted original of which was scanned and sent via email to Tennessee Department of Corrections (TDOC) Communications…
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Genocide is Here – Obamacare is a Killing Machine and Millions Will Die
A “HEALTH CARE ASSAULT WEAPON” by Dr. Laurie Roth, ©2013 (Feb. 21, 2013) — This week I gasped in horror when I learned that Obamacare had ordered Medicare to cut reimbursement for 4 million diabetic seniors by 66%. It also reduced all the companies that were supplying blood sugar monitoring supplies from 1000 to 15. I…
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Chicago Crime Family – ObamaCare – Big Pharma
IS THERE A DIFFERENCE? by Dr. Laurie Roth, ©2012 (Aug. 30, 2012) — Prices for Health care go up, services go down and lines become longer for seniors. Medicare is robbed of 750 billion by Obama and the best Health care system on earth is practically in ruins. Pray that Romney and Ryan are elected and…
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Depopulation IS the Big Plan
CAN NATURAL FOODS AND REMEDIES SURVIVE? by Dr. Laurie Roth, ©2012 (Aug. 1, 2012) — Helping people starve, die and stay sick is big business. Those of us who want choices for medical care, natural foods and treatment options are simply in the way. Big Government, Big Pharmacy and international companies know best – not…
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Unholy Trinity – Monsanto – Big Pharmacy – New World Order
GOAL – DEPOPULATION by Dr. Laurie Roth, ©2012, Presidential Candidate (Jul. 18, 2012) — Pharmaceutical companies will control and make you dependent on their medicine of choice. Monsanto will engineer seeds and control food supplies. Obama, the U.N. and his New World Order handlers will manage and control it all. Long before Obama’s tyrannical and controlling…
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Update: Walter Fitzpatrick Released from Monroe County Jail
REINCARCERATED SINCE PEARL HARBOR DAY by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 10, 2012) — The Post & Email has confirmed that Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III was released from the Monroe County jail at approximately 10:20 p.m. ET last night, February 9, 2012. In a brief telephone conversation today, Fitzpatrick stated that he will be seeking medical attention for…
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Update: Visitor to Monroe County Jail Blasts TN Gov. Bill Haslam for Failing to Take Action
“A COMPLETE INVESTIGATION OF MONROE COUNTY IS LONG PAST DUE” Jan 9, 2012 To Gov. Haslam and all others concerned: To say I am distressed would be an understatement! Today we visited a friend at the Monroe County, TN. Jail. This man, Walter Fitzpatrick, is a retired Lt. Commander in the Navy. Now he is…