2 Comments Posted by R.

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Are you kidding? Skillful and Compassionate employees?

They were HORRIBLE to these residents! Doing surgeries while they were awake because they were "Feeble minded" and couldnt feel any pain!
Do you know how many of these residents died from neglect? or abuse? And how many to this day are still scared from their experiences?

The employees at Ladd were awful, and horrible. They were far from how you're describing them
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Lynne, actually I just read that some places did perform ice baths. I imagine that most of the time they were used to subdue a patient who was particularly "unruly". So it isn't an urban legend. Maybe Manteno State Hospital didn't use the method, but there were some places that did.