Dr. David Hagar

Yeah, I think of grandma.

You know, people care about grandma.

You know, if schizophrenia can be ballparked with dementia, then people might sort of get it.

I remember I used to work in a family medicine doctor's clinic in Florida, and he wound up being elected to the Florida House, and I went and talked with him in his office.

at a time when I was advocating for a state hospital to stay open, and it got closed.

But, you know, I was talking about anosognosia, and I was asking, why is it that a woman, you know, who's 30 years old and neuropsychiatrically gravely disabled is sleeping under the bridge to stay away from the satellites, the satellite beams?

Why is that okay and considered freedom of choice?

But if we find grandma wandering around the neighborhood...

we do something different.

And his response was pretty blunt and it was pretty earthy.

He said, people care about grandma.

They don't give an F about that girl under the bridge.

I forget what it's called, but there is a law.

A lot of that is just fear of reprisal.

If you err on the side of being too strict, then you can't get in trouble with Medicare.

So in the spirit of education, education, education, I wonder, just wondering, should we plant the seed in high school?

Yeah, I remember that with my sister.

Our family normalized her oddities.

Yeah.

It's just the way she was and eventually things fell apart.