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(above) Major politicians featured most days on television and newspapers are strangely forgotten months after they retire or lose elections. Yet, such an apparent inconsequential human as Dion Carbery, disabled from birth, had the power to leave a positive imprint on the hearts and minds of so many of us he encountered in his short life. (Below) Dion Carbery selling Big Issue magazine in Port Adelaide. A brief moment in eternity two years ago. Dr John Soyland (standing) is an academic who did a study of the language used by psychiatrists and nurses when treating mental patients. He found that when medical professionals referred to patients as "suffering schizophrenia" these patients were treated better than when they were referred to as "schizophrenics". The latter indicates the psychiatrist is reducing the patients' humanity like when guards in military situations begin avoiding eye contact to prisoners condemned to be shot. |