Yes, thanks Chris.

Agreeing with the others: It's going to be hard, but you have the right, & I hope you can get some response that counts.

Yes, get that letter out as far as you can. And think about finding help in the social media: a petition, better if it started in Australia, would I think be helpful. One can hope.

Meanwhile, best wishes in getting through to someone...

Doug
On 2012-05-25, at 10:07 AM, Randolph Healy wrote:

> Dear Chris,
> 
> thanks for sending this. It's something we need to know, as Lawrence said.
> 
> I'm glad you're going to fight them. It's going to be difficult. They're in the wrong, and if they thought they were going to get away with it, it looks like they were wrong there too. I really admire your response to this appalling treatment. You're doctor is causing you harm. Hippocratic oath my arse.
> 
> Send your letter to anyone who's connected with this. There _are_ administrators and officials who do have a sense of justice and surely someone will take action.
> 
> best
> 
> Randolph
> 
> On 25/05/2012 10:32, Chris Jones wrote:
>> There has been something which I have been hiding, but now feel I must admit to and begin to make more public. It is very sad and difficult. For this I apologize.
>> 
>> Has it now been two years since my younger gay brother committed suicide by hanging himself, I cannot remember, date time has become something else.
>> 
>> It is now two months and more, over six months, that my treating doctor has refused to provide treatment for a treatable illness, CFS. He has told me that since I am a single man living alone on a boat, I am a drug addict, who does not have a wife to control my drug and alcohol intake! I am sick because I do not have a wife! I am not sick; I am an addict!
>> 
>> Needless to say, this is a breach of state and federal anti-discrimination law, aside from being blatantly homophobic. Yet for the past six months I have been living in severe disabling pain, not able to sleep. I  oppose suicide but pain prevents me from getting enough sleep to hold my sanity so I try to get myself to sleep with the hope that I may not wake again; in severe disabling pain, yet again lying still, gripping my torso, hoping the pain may end, through the long night hours. I no longer wish to live in this sort of pain, although I will refuse the easy way of suicide. And I am spending most hours of the daylight lying still, trying to breathe slowly, hoping the fatigue, pain and severe flu-like illness will leave me alone enough that I may do something. I struggle to cook for myself a meal; let alone write and do some more work on my photo art.
>> 
>> I am currently composing a letter, which I intend on sending to my medical practice, the NSW Minister for Health, the Federal Minister for Health, the Prime Minister of Australia and the United Nations in New York giving a detailed account.
>> 
>> Sorry for this heavy post, but must begin to make this situation more public and have chosen this list as only the beginning. This is the first stage in my fight for life and my right to practice as an artist and poet in Australia which, aside from a basic human right to live pain free, is also my right to practice as an Australian artist. The current political situation is denying me this right. Australia is in breach of human rights and as such in breach of international law. The fight for life, here, has only just started. This is one of my opening shots. I have chosen this list to begin to make this situation public, on an international scale. Action is life. Silence is death. And I will continue to fight, not just for myself but all suffering severe illness and discrimination living with severe illness such as CFS (aka CFIDS... see wwww.cfids.org.)
>> 
>> Yours faithfully, Christopher C Jones, BA (Communication) Hons UTS
>> 
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