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When I was 7 me and my sister were in a childrens mental hospital for a short time when etc was still widely done, she had so many problems that they considered ect for her even though she was only 10, she never got etc though and we werent in the much longer after that anyway...
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I watched this documentary and walked away feeling conflicted. One can understand why some families of those who were subjected to a lobotomy were grateful. It was the only way to keep those family members at home. However, the doctor's ego seems to have taken over, with drastic results. Unfortunately, our modern day solutions to mental illness (close the hospitals, send the patients out to the streets), don't seem to be any more effective or enlightened.
Ephemera: The Lobotomist
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Aww... This brings back wonderfully fond memories of when the family psychiatrist decided it would be BENEFICIAL for me to spend some time in a childrens MENTAL ASYLUM WHEN I WAS 7! HAHA I'm OK
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Seclusion rooms are much better then having roommates in a mental hospital. (BELIEVE ME!)
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THAT'S A BIG AUTOCLAVE! I wonder what it would be like to be put inside it and it get turned on, What a horrible way to get murdered huh? I know that's kinda dark of me but what do you expect, I'm thinking about house on haunted hill AND listening to it's soundtrack WHILE looking at these pics...
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Wow! That's really interesting, Tom; you really know your stuff! I just have an old 35mm camera, but at least it works. I love the effect that you get with that picture, especially when it is one of my favorite and most familiar subjects, WSH. By the way, in case you didn't know, Saint Veronica, (the one who wiped Jesus' face while he was carrying the cross) is the patron saint of photographers. I just happened to find that out a few days ago, and I thought of you. Keep up the fantastic work, pal! : )
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Motts, of all of the pictures of dental related 'things', this is by far the best one I have seen....
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Ah. That explains my severe kidney pain.
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Wet clean up, aisle 4!
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Ha ha

'Andrew Nobody' got owned

;)
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As I descended the ladder ever deeper, my fears of the city above and its psychological terrors were vanishing like the melting snow.


12:48 P.M. Thursday, 22 / July / 2010
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The comment that talked about the metal plates on the table going into the autoclave reminded me of an old ER story. Our local coroner was a very laid back guy and he came in to check a fatality from a car accident. For a certain period after death you can draw blood out of the heart. He told me to go for it. Showed me the spot on the chest to insert the needle and then proceded to talk with the cops., He was watching me as I prepared the equipment and when i SWABBED the skin with alcohol he gave me such a look!! He said quietly don't need to do that to a dead body.......
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This is stupid.

I took welsh GCSE

it means way out.

no translation my bum.
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Thanks MR CASH, you made my day.
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The last one of these that I ever saw was in the hospital I worked in starting in 1971. The county built us a new hospital in 1977. When we moved the "flushers" stayed behind.
I also seem to remember that the flusher was only used and the bedpan considered sanitized. Between patients the old metal bedpans were sent to central sterile to be actually sterilized. Now everything is plastic and thrown away. Not at all sure this is progress.