75 Comments Posted by evilavatar

It probably was listing the drugs they typically prescribed as treatment at the facility and drugs of choice the patient may have come in on. The other line would typically cover medications the patient came in on already like insulin, high blood pressure medication, or other medications they are on. I've seen some of these when I worked in detox as an undergrad doing assessments. We used a similar form for the assessment and would ask what drugs the patient had used in the past and what if any drugs they were on right now. They also used a form like this for incident reporting that would be used by the ME when doing a tox analysis so they knew what was prescribed and what should and shouldn't be in a persons system.

Revolution,
Some see it as prison, others home. The point of the windows being encased like that was to protect the patients from themselves. You have to realize before shatterproof glass and such this was the safest way to protect a person from jumping or breaking the windows and using the glass to injure themselves. There was, on some level, a medical reasoning behind it, even if not all the patients placed in facilities like this needed or deserved the treatment they got. Also treatment has come a long way, but without the poor souls that came first some of the treatments we have now would not exist or be as effective as they are now.

Need to get some of those chair in a bar I used to go to.

There is a public housing facility in Rockford ILL that has a similar round design. If you wander downtown New York one of the old hospitals was designed with all round rooms too. I the early 1900's ish it was believed that the round rooms prevented disease by limiting the places that germs could settle, they made a come back again in the 50-70's in some areas, but they always make for odd layouts.

The scary part is you never know if they took the X-ray tubes out. Depending on the age and type of tube that is a little bit scary.

Maybe you can convert one for use with a flobee.

I was surprised to see this place on your list as I toured the facility when it was still open. I went to High school in Michigan and one of the teachers I had was a psychologist who had practiced for years and had admitting privledges in at this facility up until like 1998.

on the plus side if you have that bad an aim you don't have to worry about a murder charge (unless there are a lot of people around).

Just a side note:

I often take chalk when I go into abandoned places... I will use it to mark where I have been and try to leave behind inconspicious markings to warn others if areas are unsafe by using different colored chalk to mark my path.

Freon wasn't invented until 1928, prior to that most refrigeration was done with pressurized ammonia, methyl chloride, or Sulfur dioxide which were all pretty nasty chemicals. DuPont owns the patent for Freon and it wasn't used in self contained cooling units until the early 1930's by Carrier. As someone from the company stated this was probably loaded with ammonia but the other chemicals they used to use are far more insidious and nasty to inhale so if you run across more like I'd steer clear of playing with knobs. (Not to mention the danger of old pressurized items to begin with.)

The scary part of this is my wife painted our front door this color (minus the rust spots).

Actually the syringe isn't that old a lot of them are color coded by the manufacturer based on size in cc's. The greater worry from needles is probably Hep C more than anything else and a lot of junkies use in secluded places for various reasons. Drug culture is something I have grown up with and for better or worse there is a specific mentality that comes with it that can be very disturbing and hard to understand in the greater community. If you see burned soda can halves laying around along with the needles, than it is time to really worry.

If you weren't shooting digital I would say this was a double exposure.

A lot of these were used to move a patient in restraints (not necessarily a patient with cerebal palsy, but possibly.) The chair would allow you to pick up the patient and run straps across the outside to keep them in the chair without having to remove the restraints they are already in.

Actually a lot of medical records are supposed to be stored for 10 years now days, but they still should have been destroyed around 2009 ish and secured in a better fashion. (Locked cabinets or better locks on the doors.) I work in a clinic and you would be amazed at the kind of stuff we keep in terms of records. I'm something of a hoarder so my desk is down right scary. The lack of responsibility in taking care of the records is astounding though. That alone would be grounds for a lawsuit :/