Re:Feds probing psychiatric hospitals for locking in patient...
by phkahler on Thursday May 25, 2017 @11:04AM
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That's an interesting experiment, but what was the expected outcome? The deliberately feigned illness to get in and then reverted to completely normal. That's not a class of patient that is ever expected to show up. How would someone expect those cases to be handled and why?
Re:Feds probing psychiatric hospitals for locking in patient...
by Doxin on Monday May 29, 2017 @11:06AM
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You'd at the very least expect medical experts to be able to identify non-ill people. That part of the experiment isn't the most damning though, The part where they told hospitals they'd repeat the experiment and then didn't is. Suddenly the hospitals managed to finger many of their patients as pseudopatients when in fact they weren't even part of the experiment.
So yeah, a mental health industry that can't differentiate between sane and insane in either direction scares me.
After admission, the pseudopatients acted normally and told staff that they felt fine and had no longer experienced any additional hallucinations. All were forced to admit to having a mental illness and agree to take antipsychotic drugs as a condition of their release. The average time that the patients spent in the hospital was 19 days. All but one were diagnosed with schizophrenia "in remission" before their release. [1]
This article also makes me think Wells Fargo-esque pressure from above is to blame, but won't be heavily punished by the authorities. At least in the WF case two executives had to pay back $75m. [2]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment
[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2017/04/10/w...