Points to Make: How we work closely with physicians to evaluate the particular clinical data of a given person at a given point in time to determine whether treatments proposed are ethically ordinary or extraordinary.
FRANCESCA FRANCHINA, MS Ed. speaks with Dr. Sylvia Gleason, DO, about mental health care in the hospital emergency room; mental health viewed as a “Non-Disease,” the lack of adequate insurance coverage and facilities for mental health patients, prescription drugs reaching epidemic proportions; the demand for prescription drugs fueled by advertising leading to the demand for harder drugs such as heroin; the death toll of drug abuse; its cost in dollars and personhood; and what can be done about all of these issues regarding mental health and drug abuse in general.
In this program, Drs Phillip and Bruce will tell us how they came to “go against the grain” of their profession and how it affects them, their families and patients.Drs Phillip McNeeley and Bruce Gfeller are half of a four-physician family practice called Holy Family Medical Associates, part of Saint Elizabeth Regional Medical Center. What is fairly unique about the physicians and staff at Holy Family is their commitment to health care that is fully in compliance with Catholic Church teaching. For over 10 years they have been joyfully serving the Lincoln community by promoting NFP and Natural Procreative Technologies, without dispensing, prescribing, or referring for birth control, sterilization or abortion.