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A screen shows a woman holding a microphone joyously. In the right hand corner it says "We will begin shortly." In the left hand corner, it says "CURED" the documentary's name, which covers LGBT health and historic abuse of LGBT people in the medical system..
Posted inGender health

Fixing past wrongs: NC mental health advocates reflect on LGBTQ discrimination in medicine

by Elizabeth Thompson June 30, 2021June 30, 2021

By Elizabeth Thompson Dan Leonard was struggling in the spring of 1966. He had recently come out as gay, and he was in the midst of a difficult academic program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine. Eventually, he was dismissed from the medical school. The sting of the dismissal […]

A look inside the former Dorothea Dix Chapel, which features dark wooden pews and ornate panels.
Posted inMental Health

Former chapel on NC’s Dorothea Dix campus to reopen, welcome visitors, events

by Thomas Goldsmith January 27, 2020April 12, 2021
Dorothea Dix Hospital was known for almost a century as a lunatic asylum, as seen here in the inset to the 1872 "Bird's Eye View" map of Raleigh.
Posted inMental Health

As a new Dix park gathers momentum, site’s history provides complex context

by Thomas Goldsmith December 12, 2019May 31, 2021
A red brick building with metal lettering that says "Broughton Hospital." In front of the building is a red ribbon for the ribbon cutting ceremony.
Posted inMental Health

State unveils long-awaited psychiatric hospital in Morganton

by Liora Engel-Smith August 23, 2019August 22, 2019
a man at a podium tries to avoid talking about Medicaid expansion
Posted inState Health Policy

NC health department would face ‘dramatic’ cuts under proposed budget

by Taylor Knopf June 28, 2019June 27, 2019
shows the front of the legislative building in Raleigh, general assembly, where the state budget gets approved
Posted inState Health Policy

State senators unveil their budget, negotiations can begin

by Taylor Knopf May 29, 2019

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