Lewisberg, so under a tenth of a mile. A few hundred yards the absolute most. The same in a roanoke rapids, also rocky mount and fayetteville. So the fog is very thick. It is going to stick around for a few hours. Not seeing very much in the way of clouds popping up on the satellite. Notice a few of the showers sitting offshore. It is 71 degrees now in raleigh. 70 is your current temperature in durham. It is 71 degrees outside in fayetteville. Were still watching some of the showers thanks to tropical depression julia. We also have our next cold front that will bring us our best chance for rain all week and that is going to push into the area tomorrow. So a lot going on the next couple of days. The temperatures climbing up to 82 degrees by lunchtime. The fog is going to lift here this morning. 88 degrees with a few isolated storms, and some of the storms we do have cooler temperatures in your forecast. Ill have all of those details coming up. Right now were learning more about that dea
His proposal for reforming the federal budget process. The Veterans Affairs undersecretary for health testified at a house hearing today about his departments efforts to improve veterans access to health care and reduce wait times. Congressman jeff miller chairs the committee. Thiss just over two hours. Hearing will come to order. Would you like to welcome everyone to todays hearing entitled, a continued assessment of delays in veterans access to health care. This hearing marks two years since this committee exposed the wait time scandal that has gripped the Department Since 2014. Im proud of the work that we have done in those two years, particularly digging into the actions of bureaucrats who whose selfinterest were put ahead with the veterans they were charged with assisting. The purpose of this hearing is to examine the efforts that va has taken to improve access to care for veterans and to identify where serious issues still exist. Based on the bipartisan work of this committee, g
Access to care. With that i yield to the Ranking Member, ms. Brown for any opening remark she may have. Thank you, mr. Chairman. For calling this hearing today. Following the wait time scandal of phoenix, Congress Passed and president obama signed the veterans access choice and accountability act of 2014. In it, we mandated there be an independent assessment of veterans healthcare. The assessment highlight many of the things we hear from our veterans. We hear that va provides excellent healthcare, especially healthcare related to the special needs of our veterans. We also hear that in certain areas, the va is at the forefront of healthcare in this country. We also hear from our veterans that va care is often fragmented and that it can be difficult to navigate and arrange nonva care. We hear of long wait times and limited access. Following the assessment in the Service Transportation and veterans healthcare act of 2015 we mandated a report by the va regarding a plan for how va could con
Psychosis, people who hear voices or see visions or have delusional beliefs from all the other symptoms blur into the realm of the usual experience. Even the psychotic experience blends into the Human Experience depending on the culture. So in some cultures you might be considered special a special if you have these issues and certainly that somebody might say i hear a voice and it is the voice of a dead relative calling and we would we would consider that a psychosis we would consider it a cultural phenomena so because the sum comes to safeco symptoms blend it is a continuum. Are you depressed or just having a bad reaction to something that lacks weve come up with ways we get medication for it so if you get it wrong, it upsets people. Does that make sense . What percentage of americans have a diagnosed Mental Illness or undiagnosed . And Community Studies when people went walking doortodoor taking history what they came up with this but 56 of americans at some point in their lifetime
Host dr. Dinah miller you write in your book shrink rap that psychiatry is a controversial medical field. Why . Guest well i think part of it is because of the history of psychiatry. Certainly its a field that has floundered with how to diagnose, how to treat, some of the treatments have not gone so well. For example the lobotomy phase that was very brief and i think part of the confusion with diagnosis that birthed some controversy is that with the exception of psychosis of people who hear voices or see visions or have delusional beliefs, that all the other symptoms blow into the rom of the usual Human Experience. Even the psychotic symptoms sometimes bore into the round of the usual Human Experience depending on the culture. So in some cultures you might be considered special if you have these issues and certainly somebody might say i hear a voice and its the voice of the dead relative calling me. We wouldnt consider that a psychosis. We would call that a carl terrell phenomenon a cu