Re: Not-A-Dr. Laura

["TERRY M WOOD" <TERRY_WOOD@prodigy.net>]

A lawyer that gives an opinion for ONLY .02 cents  <VBG>
- -----Original Message-----
From: Douglas Broda <dougbroda@mindspring.com>
To: Martin J. Waters <mwaters@wesleyan.edu>
Cc: Bill Piacentini <billpi@ll.mit.edu>;
boston-radio-interest@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu
<boston-radio-interest@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: Thursday, June 11, 1998 12:14 AM
Subject: Re: Not-A-Dr. Laura


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>
>Martin J. Waters wrote:
>
>>                Are these listeners calling her because they can't get any
>> real
>> help through their medical insurance? Or because they have no medical
>> insurance? Or because they feel more comfortable talking anonymously over
>> the phone? Or because real mental health care has such a stigma that they
>> don't want to go to it? Or, worst possible case, because they actually
>> think they will get better help from Not-a-Dr. Loudmouth in five minutes
>> than from an actual counselor providing actual counseling? IMO, these
>> listeners would get more help from flipping the dial and listening to
Paula
>> Cole, or almost any music, for that matter.
>
>Well, I dunno about Paula Cole. :)
>
>I think it *is* the anonymity.... it is a lot easier to spill your guts
without
>having to go face to face for many, I think. I wonder sometimes if there's
a
>market for a traditional counseling situation, only with name not disclosed
and
>a screen between patient and counselor. Ideal, no. Better than any call-in
>show, yup.
>
>Just my 2 cents plain...
>
>
>--
>Douglas J. Broda
>Broda and Burnett
>Attorneys at Law
>80 Ferry Street
>Troy, New York 12180
>(518) 272-0580
>Fax: (518) 272-0381
>dougbroda@mindspring.com
>
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