Sandhills Update: Bob Morrison And Brooke Schmidly Don't Just Fly Over The Cuckoo's Nest, They Mow It Down

In speaking with lawyers and others familiar with the North Carolina's legal system over the last few months, I've heard a lot of opinions.  But the one that is shared by virtually everyone is that legally speaking, Randolph County is a different world.  Down is up.  Right is left.  And there ain't no light in any of the crevices.

There's a reason Randolph Hospital made it a contractual obligation for employed physicians filing any lawsuits relevant to their employment to do so in Randolph County.

The game is fixed to protect Asheboro's big dawgs.

I've never been more sure of that than I am now.  We'll get to that.

I got a phone call on July 4th.  A friend back home was positively giddy . . . having just read a SCATHING letter-to-the-Courier-Tribune's Editor published in Sunday's paper . . . from a lawyer representing Sandhills Mental Health Center (in Pinehurst). . . addressing a "guest column" written by Randolph Hospital CEO Robert Morrison.

(My friend was laughing uproariously.  It was too just good for snail mail, he said . . . or even a FAX.  He HAD to read it to me over the phone . . . "I don't know who this guy is, Dr. J, but he RIPPED Morrison a new butthole!  It's PRICELESS!)

I've blogged on the "dispute" between Sandhills  Mental Health Center and Randolph Hospital before . . . most recently after Morrison appeared before the Randolph County Commissioners requesting that public money reserved to pay for Sandhills' services to Randolph County residents be diverted to Randolph Hospital.

Commissioners have publicly characterized Morrison's request as "dead in the water" because of North Carolina law . . . North Carolina law that Mr. Morrison's lawyer might have familiarized him with before he made his proposal.

I'm told that Morrison back-tracked a little afterwards, saying he was just trying to shed light on a serious problem.

(Several Housecalls readers suggested that the nearly $300,000 be subtracted from Bob's over $700,000 salary & bennies package.)

I've really got to commend Sandhills CEO, Victoria Whitt, both for her stoicism during this onslaught, and for not just rolling over and playing dead/taking Bob's crap.  I know Morrison is not used to anyone talking back.  Ever since he came to Asheboro in 1993, Morrison hasn't had to digest the word, "NO!", too often.

It's actually not fair to characterize this as a dispute.  Bob Morrison is just flat out wrong to be blaming the problem on Sandhills.  And his little sound-bite-media-road-show is gearing up to be state-sanctioned extortion.

The state is mediating the fiasco as if there is a real dispute because the truth of why psychiatric patients are in the fix they're in EVERYWHERE has everything to do with failed mental health reform legislated by the state.  But Bob painting himself as some kind of Knight of the Psychiatric Round Table is just FICTION.

Bob Morrison is nothing if not a consummate liar.  And actually, he's not really all that consummate about the lying.  He's just been very well-insulated and protected from the consequences of his actions from almost the day he arrived in Asheboro nearly two decades ago.  Unfortunately, in a small pond where the mill-town gods are never wrong, the Randolph Hospital Board of Directors' notion of "oversight" has always and only involved rubber-stamping everything he's ever done . . . no matter how unjust, amoral or illegal.

Bob's "right people", you see.

Toss in all the hob-nobbing at Rotary . . . stir in a local newspaper whose Publisher & Editor would rather chow down the pricey ordurbs at the hospital shin-digs than ask an objective question of any of their "friends" . . . and Randolph Hospital's CEO is coated in some industrial-strength Teflon.

In the interest of full disclosure, I've not been able to find/read Bob's column.  As regular readers know, I don't (and WILL NOT EVER after the treatment I & others have received from our local "journalists") subscribe to the local rag whose primary function is to be a cheer-leading newsletter for Asheboro's well-named and well-connected.  Moreover, I cannot read the paper online - as the Courier dived behind a pay-wall several months ago.

Before that, I was banned from commenting on stories (free speech in Asheboro is only for those who don't question authority and omnipotence of those who put our town on life support) . . . because my commentary was a bit too hot for certain "right people" to handle.

But I expect the guest column was ripe with Bob's very unique (we'll get to that) perspective on who should be providing/paying for psychiatrists to treat the mentally-ill requiring inpatient admission at his "non-profit" community hospital.

Closely examined (at least more closely examined than the talking heads at WFMY TV tsk-tsking over the indignities suffered by patients and their families will do), Morrison's position seems to be that psychiatric patients in Randolph County should be somebody else's problem.  Patients presenting to his hospital in mental health crisis care supposed to be out of sight, and out of mind . . . and their care not out of his pocket.  They're supposed to be whizzed in past the ED doors (with and nice bill presented for ED services), and then  moved out very quickly - shipped off to facilities in the netherlands more quipped to deal with sick and broken minds.

Sandhills is contracted to provide the screening and triage services necessary to get these patients to the right facility (Randolph ain't it), and from what I've heard through the medical grapevine, they're doing the best they can with what they've got.

If a bed cannot be immediately found, Randolph Hospital itself does not provide psychiatric services for inpatients, and can only "baby-sit" these patients in the ED or holding areas until the state's mental health triage system can evaluate them and find a bed somewhere else.

Moreover, this problem is compounded by the fact that not all psychiatric patients are created psychiatrically or medically equal.  Different problems require different approaches - perhaps even different facilities.

(Been there, done that, used to work in an out-of-state big city ED.  Psychiatric patients had to wait there too.)

I would submit that if Bob had really CARED about all of this before he started making the rounds in front of the TV cameras, he would have proposed developing a comprehensive psychiatric program and hired psychiatrists to see these patients YEARS ago.  He would have contributed to solving the problem - as opposed to threatening to suedthe facilities that cope with it.

The thing is that mental health is not nearly as glitzy or glamorous or lucrative as cancer care in a flashy new buidling - and doesn't rake in nearly as much money.

And/so the FACT is that, although behavioral health IS an integral part of any community's primary care (arguably the job of community hospitals - as opposed to trying to keep up with the medical Jones in Greensboro, Durham, Chapel Hill and Winston-Salem), Bob Morrison never really gave a rat's tail about mental health care in Asheboro & Randolph County . . . at least not before the seriously mentally-ill presenting through his emergency room started taking up beds/space at Randolph Hospital . . . because, in the wake of the decimated landscape left behind by ex-Governor-now-convicted-felon, Mike Sleazely's, ill-conceived 2001 "Mental Health Reform Act", there are not enough beds in psychiatric facilites to go around.

North Carolina downsized its in-patient system (closing about half of its facilities) without and before successfully building the community out-patient infrastructures that were supposed to replace the care offered by hospitals.

In other words, it's a SYSTEMIC PROBLEM born of BAD POLICY born of BAD POLITICS (I cannot resist the urge to note that it all occurred under a Democratic administration).

Translation: NOT SANDHILLS FAULT.

But Bob needs a demon, if he's going to play avenging angel.  Even better if he's demonizing a girl.  They're far easier to portray as "wack-jobs".

Things are really bad for psych patients in North Carolina - a genuine crisis of daunting proportions - mostly because of the Easley administration's "fix" that wasn't (kinda what I'm expecting from Obamacare but that's neither here nor there).

However, a lack of inpatient beds is a huge nationwide problem - getting worse in the economic downturn.

Nothing about what is going on in Asheboro is really unique, and Bob Morrison is no champion of the tired, the poor and the mentally-ill.

He's actually Nurse Ratched.

[As long as he's pointing fingers, as I understand it, Bob is a BIG Democrat and was a BIG supporter of exp-Governor Sleazely's administration and policies.  What goes around.]

Once again, reality is that Bob Morrison was too busy building cancer centers that Asheboro didn't really need (my apologies to Sir Buzz Armfield of the Asheboro Armfields who gave one million dollars to that center), and running off  whistle-blowing physicians who didn't "fit in" to his grands plans for remodelling Asheboro's medical landscape in his carpet-bagging image (or rather, some over-paid consultant's image, because Bob Morrison never had an original idea in his life) to care very much about mental health . . .

. . . until it started messing with his bottom line and his BONUSES.

Except for what has quietly poured into his own pockets . . . and those of his executive staff, consultants and lawyers . . . Bob Morrison follows the money.

And he's never wanted anyone else following where it went.  That's why he can't cough up old tax returns on his "non-profits" . . . or comprehensive lists of his Board members and/or Corporate membership.

Moreover, the intrepid reporters at the Courier Tribune, despite their occasional posturing-to-the-contrary will not EVER apply the heat to make him.

Since 2010, Bob has been writing letters to state officials, and making appearances before County Commissioners, and postering on TV, bad-mouthing Sandhills Center (a facility that handles psychiatric admissions for eight - yes, chickadees, count 'em - EIGHT counties . . . namely Randolph, Richmond,  Anson, Moore, Montgomery, Lee, Hoke and Harnett) because he says they are not in compliance with North Carolina Administrative Code and General Statute.

Now, Bob is FULL OF MECONIUM (it's a nice, almost sterile word for something else) on that point.  But if you think this physician is too much of a "disgruntled ex-employee" to be credible, don't just take if from me . . . take it from the N.C. Department of Human Services and the N.C. Attorney General (not that I'm a big fan of either) . . . both of whom have summarily dismissed Bob's claims in advisory opinions.

But even if he didn't have feces coming out his ears, ROBERT MORRISON WOULD KNOW ALL ABOUT NOT BEING COMPLIANT WITH NORTH CAROLINA LAW.

This blog exists because, in my book, Bob and his Vice President, Steven Eblin are unconvicted felons who repeatedly lied under Oath about the "confidentiality" of public records containing financial information relevant to my damages claim . . . .

. . . you know, the damages claimed in the long-ago lawsuit I filed after Bob and Steve fired this ex-public-servant for saving a critically-ill newborn baby's life and reporting what happened to peer review . . .

. . . the lawsuit that was supposed to see me vindicated, and give me the opportunity to rebuild what Randolph Hospital's "evil  twins" so maliciously & methodically destroyed.

Given what was in those public records that Bob and Steve and Randolph Hospital's lawyers withheld while negotiating with Steve Schmidly, the monetary damages awarded at settlement (as a number of lawyers have pointed out, I did technically "win" all aspects of the legal battle) were a fraction of what they should have been . . . after three years of hard work flushed down the toilet and a reputation decimated - followed by almost three more years of brutal litigation.

In this instance, it was not about ensuring good patient care, but (1) keeping the Pediatric "business" under his control . . . and (2) saving some money when he had to own up.

Alas, in North Carolina, Pediatricians really ARE "a dime a dozen".  Non-profiteering hospital executives, embracing perjury, contempt and fraud as a means to a bad-faith end, are no big deal to our District Attorney, State Bar or Attorney General.  Public servants screwed-over in said service are SOL.  Everybody lies in Court.  It's no biggie.

(Like I said. Not a big fan of Law-&-Order Roy Cooper.)

My dearly-departed Pops, who along with my sainted Mother was forced to absorb and endure every humiliation inflicted by these goons-in-suits right along with me, never thought that Steve Schmidly was as negligent or stupid as the settlement he negotiated ultimately proved him to be.

Nope.  Pops ALWAYS believed in his bones that my Randolph County law firm sold me out.

When I finally sat down with my legal files, and figured out just how thoroughly I had been swindled in the settlement, and confronted both Schmidly and Morrison, the Bobber took great pleasure in taunting me in e-mails.  He and Steve clinked glasses at various "right people" functions, and he'd give Schmid my regards.

I still had a hard time believing Schmid could have betrayed me like that.

But as of July 4th, 2011, if I ever had any doubt that my lawyer took me for a great big ride, I don't now.  For I am informed that, in this dispute with Sandhills, Bob Morrison is being represented NOT by my old nemesis Robert Wilson, but by Steve's daughter, Brooke Schmidly.

(I really didn't think Mr. Wilson would be so moronic as to condone a hospital CEO he represented publicly dissing another CEO/facility doing the very best they can under circumstances way beyond their control . . . particularly when the legal leg Morrison is standing on is made of glass.  I cannot imagine this is playing well in Raleigh . . . or even among Bob's compatriots at the N.C. Hospital Association.)

To refresh reader's memories, Brooke is the faux-homegirl (raised in Kernersville) who, along with Bob and her Father, seduced the citizenry of Asheboro into believing that being a "family-friendly", "Mayberryish" burg wasn't enough any more.  Being "dry" wasn't economically marketable .  Alcohol sales would save the town.

Asheboro had a chance to remain unique and be special.  That's all gone now.

Brooke Schmidly now sits on the Alcohol Beverage Control Board . . . and there are rumors she has higher political aspirations.

In stark contrast to Dr. Mary Johnson, whose last name wasn't Redding . . . or McCrary . . . or Bossong . . . or Armfield (sorry, Buzzy) . . . our Miss Brooke has been getting the royal treatment since she came "home".

Her Daddy smoothed the way.

[As aside, a "non-profit" hospital CEO (whose town has long been identified as a high intensity drug-trafficking area) endorsing alcohol sales in his previously-dry city (Bob said he needed to have it in order to recruit doctors) is incomprehensible to me as a matter of improving the community's general health . . . particularly its MENTAL HEALTH (kinda relevant to what we're discussing here).  But I bet all of the associated alcohol-related pathology has sure kicked up the hospital'$ revenue.  All of Bob's "concern" for those suffering from alcohol dependence and addiction is first-class hypocrisy.]

I'm digressing.  In moving on to the meat of this post, I actually don't have to exert any energy at all making mince-meat of Brooke Schmidly.  A lawyer from Pinehurst named Thomas Van Camp has done it for me.  His letter to the Courier Tribune, published below, is a work of art.

Without mentioning Brooke's name, he manages to makes her out to be just as much a self-serving fountain of mis-information as her client.  A chip off the old block, she is.

The Letter is entitled, "Time To Set The Record Straight"

My name is Thomas Van Camp and I am an attorney practicing law in Moore County, North
Carolina. I represent Sandhills Center. For the last several months, I have followed the conduct and comments of Mr. Robert E. Morrison, the President of Randolph Hospital.

In his recent guest column, he makes numerous statements which are both misleading and inaccurate. Mr. Morrison’s failure to acknowledge the true facts and his self-righteous attempts to politicize this issue for his own gain are disturbing.

For those interested, here are the facts:

Over the last 8 months, 71% of the individuals (with psychiatric diagnoses) presenting to the Randolph ED have been discharged with an appropriate disposition (either inpatient or outpatient) within 48 hours of admission. Another 23%, who have required hospitalization at the state facilities, have waited between 48 and 120 hours (5 days), due to no beds availability at the state facilities - they are placed on the state waiting list and then we are called when a bed opens up. 6% of the individuals have had waits of over 5 days - the majority of these have medical issues that need to be addressed prior to a psychiatric facility admitting them - i.e. they have to be treated medically and then medically cleared.

Therapeutic Alternatives Qualified Professionals see all of these individuals and make disposition arrangements, with the telephonic backup of licensed professionals and psychiatrists.

In June of 2010, Mr. Morrison sent a letter to Victoria Whitt, the CEO of Sandhills

Center, claiming that Sandhills Center was not complying with the North Carolina Administrative Code or the North Carolina General Statutes in connection with providing services to the mentally ill in Randolph County.

In his letter, Mr. Morrison cited the same statutes referenced in his guest column.

Sandhills Center denied the allegations contained in Mr. Morrison’s letter citing the fact that it
maintained a 24 hour, 7 day a week crisis response service through an entity called Therapeutic Alternatives.

In an effort to educate Mr. Morrison, Sandhills Center requested that the North Carolina

Department of Health and Human Services review Mr. Morrison’s letter, as well as the services being provided by Sandhills Center, in order to determine whether or not Sandhills Center was in fact complying with North Carolina law. Sandhills Center received a two page response from the Department of Health and Human Services, which rejected Mr. Morrison’s position.

This two page letter was provided to Mr. Morrison and his attorney.

Apparently still not satisfied, Mr. Morrison continued to write letters to Sandhills Center making the same baseless claim that Sandhills Center was not complying with North Carolina law.

Again, in an effort to address Mr. Morrison’s concerns, Sandhills Center requested that the North Carolina Attorney General’s office review the matter and provide a legal opinion regarding whether or not the services provided by Sandhills Center in fact complied with North Carolina law.

On April 8, 2011, Special Deputy Attorney General, Richard Slipsky issued an informal opinion/advisory letter which rejected out of hand Mr. Morrison’s position and advised that Sandhills Center was in fact complying with North Carolina law.

Notwithstanding the fact that both the Department of Health and Human Services and the North Carolina Attorney General’s office had opined that Sandhills Center was complying with North Carolina law, Mr. Morrison threatened to sue Sandhills Center, blindly insisting that his position was legally correct.

In an effort to avoid potential litigation, which would both be frivolous and costly, Sandhills Center suggested that the parties engage in pre-litigation mediation in an effort to resolve their differences. The parties selected former North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Henry Frye to preside over the mediation.

The mediation was held on April 15, 2011. Representatives of the North Carolina Attorney General’s office also attended the Mediation.

Although the mediation did not yield an immediate resolution, there were attempts on both sides to understand and appreciate the others’ concerns.

Notwithstanding the fact that Sandhills Center was complying with all of the mandates of North Carolina law, and in an effort to appease Mr. Morrison, Sandhills Center ultimately agreed to contract with Therapeutic Alternatives to provide a licensed psychiatrist to make daily rounds Monday through Friday in both the emergency room and in the hospital’s transitional unit where patients are awaiting transfer to an inpatient facility.

This service would be in addition to the 24-7 Mobile Crisis Team already in place in Randolph County.

Sandhills agreed to fund an on-site psychiatrist because, at the mediation, this was clearly Mr. Morrison’s main concern.

On May 5, 2011, Sandhills Center informed Mr. Morrison and the Hospital’s attorney, in writing, of its intent to provide this service effective July 1, 2011.

Sandhills Center was able to fund the on site psychiatrist by electing not to compensate the emergency room physicians who were providing assessments. The thought was that this would not negatively affect patient care because the emergency physicians were being compensated by Sandhills Center for services that they were already required to perform under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (“EMTALA”).

EMTALA requires hospitals and ambulance services to provide care to anyone needing emergency healthcare regardless of citizenship or ability to pay.

Thus, effective July 1, 2011 mentally ill patients in Randolph Countywill have the benefit of (1) a 24-7 Mobile Crisis Team which includes licenses qualified professionals, (2) the same emergency room service previously provided by emergency room physicians and staff and (3) an on site psychiatrist making rounds through the emergency department and transitional unit Monday through Friday.

The foregoing represents just some of the facts that Mr. Morrison neglected to include in his self-serving guest column.

It is unfortunate that Mr. Morrison continues to publicly attack Sandhills Center in light of the fact that, according to the North Carolina Attorney General’s office, Sandhills Center was not required to make any concessions in response to Mr. Morrison’s demands.

Although it is difficult to comprehend Mr. Morrison’s true motives, perhaps it has more to do with the bottom line than patient care.  In fact, Sandhills Center’s decision to provide a psychiatrist to make daily rounds Monday through Friday will, according to Mr. Morrison, result in income to the hospital on an annual basis of approximately $300,000.00.

Perhaps Mr. Morrison is attempting to sway public opinion in the event that the hospital elects to sue Sandhills Center.

In any event, if Mr. Morrison spent less time grand standing in front of the County Commissioners, finger pointing and writing guest columns, he might realize Sandhills Center gave him exactly what he requested.

Thomas Van Camp


It's actually not difficult for some of us to discern Bob Morrison's motives, Mr. Van Camp.  But we're covered in the scars he inflicted.  He would lie to his Mother if it put money in his pocket.

He's already put his hand on a Bible and repeatedly sworn lie after lie . . . with even the the presumed Wrath of the Lord God Himself failing to deter him.  God knows that the State of North Carolina will impose no such sanction.

What Bob is doing now is purely and simply about putting money in his institution's pocket - which in turn, ultimately means more money in his pocket.  I very strongly suspect that all of this public posturing has something to do with getting a piece of the action . . . in other words, eventually extorting external funding for an inpatient unit at Randolph.  It's right out of the progressive playbook.

"You never let a serious crisis go to waste . . . it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before. "  -Rahm Emanuel

Let me be clear.  Providing inpatient Psychiatric services in Asheboro is actually not a bad idea.  But I would just prefer that it happen after an honest, open dialogue (not gonna happen in a town whose newspaper has dived behind a pay wall and only sucks at one teat), as opposed to predicated on a pack of lies that assigns blame to the very people and institutions who've been doing the hard work all along.

I would also not worry too much about public opinion, Mr. Van Camp.  It doesn't count for much in a Court of law (witness the farce of justice that will set Casey Anthony free in a matter of days).  And take it from the homegirl who might as well been a mugging victim in New York City, as long as their own applecarts are not jostled too much,  most people in Asheboro don't get worked up over anything that might actually embody small town values.

I really love the way that Mr. Van Camp turns the tables on the Emergency Department physicians who have no doubt done most of the whining because Psych Patients are parked in their money-making beds (they can't evaluate as many faux heart attacks).

"You want our already over-burdened-facility-not-really-at-fault-in-this-mess to fund psychiatrists that your way-overpaid CEO should have thought about recruiting a long time ago . . . as a very basic community service?  Fine. We're  already on a shoe-string.  And EMTALA allows us to cut our own losses by letting your Emergency Department doctors EAT IT . . . instead of paying them for work you admit they cannot do.

I believe it's called an "unfunded mandate", Bob.  Take it up with your hero, Obama.

(Beautiful.)

I wonder how his ED physicians feel about Bob now (this is one instance in which I don't feel sorry for the doctors at all - mostly because it's some of the same crew who sat around deaf, dumb and blind while I got stomped)?  He's not so much the hero, I expect.

In closing, I saw Bob fairly recently.  We live in the same neighborhood (well, he lives there - I more or less vacation there), and starting out on my last trip back down East, I saw him in the cool-down phase of a run.

He saw me too, and GLARED his worst "evil-Bob" glare as I drove past him.

Like I care.

I mean, PUHLEASE.  I honestly don't know why this poser is glaring at me . . . after all, I'm the homegirl who, for nearly fourteen years, has had to drive hours in order to work (after the great blackball) . . . the one who takes the killer-call no one else will touch in an attempt to stabilize her financial situation - a situation that will NEVER recover from what Bob Morrison and Randolph did.

In stark contrast, Morrison is the "public servant" that Randolph Hospital pays over $700,000/year . . . yet We-the-Gullible public are supposed to believe he cannot afford to pay for his own psychiatrists.''
(I wonder how the residents of the seven other counties Sandhills serves feel about this deal?).

One of my friends asked me if, while on the receiving end of one of those glares, I'm ever tempted to turn Bob into a hood ornament.

I told her, no.

Bob Morrison is so not worth it.  He's a giant pustule on the butt of Asheboro.  He's MRSA.  It's just going to take the right antibiotic (i.e. lawyer) to get rid of him.

(How's that as a reflection of my mental health?)

And my advice to Mr. Van Camp and Sandhills the next time Bob flexes his little legal winkie up and down, or our Miss Brooke presumes to lecture Sandhills on following the law (it it were not so pathetic it would be funny) would be this . . .

. . . "Hey Bob, we've been doing some background research on a legal case you and your current law firm were involved in several years back.

You remember the case . . . you DESTROYED the practice of a homegrown Pediatrician after she defied your minions' written threats in order to save a baby's life - and then reported what happened to peer review.  It's a CLASSIC whistle-blower scenario (never mind that your current legal counsel's Daddy didn't work very hard to hammer that point home).   In doing this fairly dastardly deed, you breached a Federal service agreement - bastardizing the intent of the public service program that brought the doctor home, depriving patients/their parents of a doctor they trusted and pouring taxpayer's money down the drain.

We're kinda wondering, Bob, how exactly did good patient care factor in to all of that?  Did you really want this Pediatrician to roll over and go back to sleep and let that child die?  Or keep her mouth shut while a doctor YOU falsely advertised as having expertise in Neonatology that he did not possess, kept prancing around the hospital as some kind of specialist?

But you weren't done pounding, were you Bob?  After destroying any chance she had for staying in town, you tried to bully this lady doctor into silence, by SLAPP-suing her for telling the truth to the government she served.  That's pretty damned low-ball, Bob.  Who was paying for your lawyers as they warped the law and used it like a sledgehammer?

We've been looking into some of the allegations this lady doctor has made online (about the bold-face lies you told, and being swindled at settlement) . . . allegations you've not had the decency or guts to address in any way . . . allegations that the same newspaper letting you write your guest columns has determinedly pretended do not exist.

The thing is, Bob, N.C. General Statutes and U.S./IRS Codes are VERY clear on public records being made available to the public.  It sure looks like you treated the Court pretty contemptuously when you LIED UNDER OATH in discovery . . .  and defied a judge's order . . . and negotiated with the physician victim of your malfeasance in very BAD FAITH.

Perjury is a fairly serious charge.

I mean, my God, Bob.  You wanna talk about mental health?  It would be AMAZING if this doctor did not suffer from PTSD and depression.  You did the worst kind of number on her!

The N.C. Attorney General is in the next room.  How's about we go discuss it with him?"

As my good friend, Buzz Armfield said when all of this was brought to his attention (that's after he could catch his breath from hysterial laughter over the absurdity of it all), "Mary, God bless him, your Daddy was right".

Bob and Brooke aren't strange bedfellows at all.  They're just bedfellows in the Cuckoo's Nest of

Asheboro.  The game was fixed all along.

I was actually almost "lucky", in that unlike Randle McMurphy I was able to get away from the crazy people running this *&^%$#@! asylum.

Thank God, this one could fly East.