3,181 Comments Posted by Lynne

And a wise decision that would be, too. ;-)

CAS, now I KNOW I love you. ;-)

'Cept for the fact that the woman is inaccurate at some very important junctures, negating much of her graceless attempts at quasi-research:
http://www.psychologic...tArticle.cfm?id=1947
http://taxa.epi.umn.ed...Kihlstrom_review.pdf
http://taxa.epi.umn.ed..._Rosenhan_Slater.pdf
http://taxa.epi.umn.ed..._Slater_Rosenhan.pdf
http://taxa.epi.umn.ed...Spitzer_Rosenhan.pdf
http://taxa.epi.umn.ed..._Slater_Rosenhan.pdf
http://www.nytimes.com...amp;partner=USERLAND
http://books.guardian....6000,1168052,00.html
http://www.timesonline...8123-1060351,00.html
(Sorry, her book pissed me off, as well as her juvenile reaction to the legitimate questioning it received from researchers who know what they are talking about.)

Mike E,

Excellent point! I was meaning I disliked the negative sense of restraint that people were alluding to, as in "these poor, poor people are chained to the walls, beds, toilets, gurneys, and/or geri-chairs all the time like animals with no opportunity for release, oh those feckin' brutish staff" as opposed to "these folks may have needed a restraint strap as a supportive device to help maintain their posture or position for comfort or safety," as in Dr. Sketch's definition of 5/18/06. :-)

From all the research I've done I can't find that there was ever a crematorium associated with this hospital. There is and was a crematorium in the town and there were incinerators on ground for burning garbage, just like at any other large facility or hospital, whether or not they were devoted to people with psychiatric issues.

Hey! :-)
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Yes ma'am, that is correct. It's been a while - I'll try to find an approximate date for you. I would guess the late 1700s to the early 1800s were when this sort of treatment took place. One method was to put people in a basket and pull it up to the ceiling and then let it drop. That would work for ME, all right. Another was to have someone walk across a stage and a trap door would open and they would fall into a vat of cold water. That would ALSO work for me and it would be a convenient thing there was water there because I truly believe I would have wet my pantaloons by the time I reached the water and I would need to "freshen" my clothes.
http://members.aol.com...stsArmamentarium.jpg

Hey, EMTs and medical folks who also hang out here - don't most of your gurneys, especially emergency gurneys, have straps? I know most of the ones I am familiar with do, and that is for "regular health care" as well as mental health.

Dang, people sure get all het up about "restraints as evil devices", don't they? 8`-)

http://www.answers.com/topic/gurney
http://www.ojp.usdoj.g...dp/images/gurney.gif
http://www.angelusmedi...ges/Guramb1menup.JPG
http://www.ci.farmingt...ireEmergResponse.jpg
http://www.hah-emergen...20Assembly%20101.jpg
http://commons.wikimed...MS1_on_stretcher.jpg

I love CAS. ;-)

That's the case in many places these days, but it is only a recent development (i.e., the last 20 years) that the ADA has been around to require facilities to be wheelchair accessible.

Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas.

Did you ever hear of a time when dinosaurs roamed the earth? Well, that's pretty close.

Real answer = started in June 1972.

Actually, that IS fairly close to the time the dinosaurs roamed the earth, ain't it? =8-o

That's funny. Where I work the morgue is across the hall from the break room for the hospital staff.

I've worked in many an institution and haven't found a haunted one yet (and I'm a night owl - I like second and third shift hours where all the excitement ought to occur). But there are folks who have gone to a larger number of these than I have - the urban explorer group that posts here. They may have seen something I haven't seen yet and they have gone to many places I haven't.

Of course, as I've said before, it is possible indeed that I frighten off apparitions. :-)

In all seriousness, though, I tend to focus heavily on the people who are right in front of me. If it is the case that energy forces are out there from deceased people, I probably would be too busy focusing on the living to have time left to see the dead. They may be there and they may have their issues, but the folks I work with have some pretty serious issues in the here and now, so perhaps any deceased forces would know better than to try to distract me.

Because the soap dispenser was actually turned on in this tub.