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 Wednesday, April 28, 1993

   The Boston Globe

   on the front page, in an article entitled,

   Mental health and the HMOs

     ""Unless you have a major psychiatric disorder (like schizophrenia or manic depression) and you're a clear and present danger to yourself or others, you can no longer access insurance", said George Rhoads, a psychologist with practices in Westborough and Worcester."

 

 

     August,1996

     the American Psychological Association Monitor

     in Letters to the Editor:

   "The Paradox of the Managed Care Psychotherapist"

     "How can therapists in dependent and controlling relationships with HMO's work with clients whose primary issues are often about getting out of abusive controlling relationships?"

      George A. Rhoads, PhD

 

 

     Wednesday, December 3, 1997

     Telegram & Gazette

     Worcester, Massachusetts

     in the page one headline article:

     MDs decry profit-driven medicine

     "Luckmann's remarks struck a chord with George Rhoads, a Westboro psychologist. He noted that everything Luckmann and other primary care doctors had to say " is what we were saying five years ago. Welcome to the party.""

     "And, referring to mental health care, Rhoads added, "they are getting a whole bunch of technocrats who roll the product off the end of the conveyor belt - just like McDonald's.""

 

 

     March/April 2004

     MASSAGE MAGAZINE

     in an article on page 156:

     THE BODY POLITIC

     The long, bumpy road in Massachusetts

     (The article describes progress on a bill which was introduced at the MA State House to license massage therapists. There was supposed to have been a coalition of different interested parties, bodywork therapist guilds, working together for the common interest.)

      The article reads:

     ""It was not a coalition in the true sense of the word," said George A. Rhoads, legislative representative for the Massachusetts chapter of the American Organization for Bodywork Therapies of Asia (AOBTA). "It was the AMTA's hired lobbyist and attorney directing traffic.""