"In this issue we have two very special 'ward stories.' Both attest to the importance of family -- and of faith; in ourselves, and/or a higher power. Both speak to the importance of achieving and sustaining recovery, and the fact that doing so can be achieved through different approaches."

"Some 10% of all hospital admissions are related to inappropriate prescription or over-the-counter medicine use. Among patients 65 years and older this percentage more than doubles, and it is estimated that these types of improper drug use result in more than 125,000 deaths each year."

"All of us know how it feels to be discriminated against. It happens all too frequently to most of us. So why do we go around doing it to ourselves?"

"The change to electronic payment is in part a cost-cutting strategy; in part an effort to help disabled beneficiaries who often have had checks stolen. Social Security reports receiving $60 million in forged checks, $2 million in counterfeit checks, and $3 million in altered checks in 1996."

"During those early, tortuous years ... searching for a light on the path that would lead her back to our world of reality, we agonized over this unjust stroke of misfortune. To this day when I happen to come across her earned, yet never used college diploma, I am choked with emotion and distress at this awful waste.

"For me, Bellevue was my second home. I know Bellevue's reputation, but for me it was my haven. I left the revolving door when I was put on lithium carbonate ... I'm out continuously for nineteen glorious years!"