The other thing I found interesting about some of the staircases in Worc. State was that they were caged to prevent any patients from jumping off of them and killing themselves.
As you have worked in an elderly home, were all these things that you are empathetic about, happening where you worked? That would explain why you feel every other established medical facility is guilty of such heinous crimes...spidergirl, please do some research before you go and make assumptions about that which you know nothing about. I fear for the grandparents out there right now.
I've changed my mind. After reading all that hooey now I'm going to JUMP out that window myownself. I just never knew we were all so evil and now I'm just depressed enough to hurl myself bodily from the very room. Of course, given that Motts says this room is only on the first floor, about the best I'll prolly do is twist my ankle or give myself a slightly bloody nose, mebbe skin up my knees a little. You know how incompetent we in the mental health field are. We can torture and starve others and by God, we can even force them to use a weight machine (blackhearted asshats that we are for that foul deed alone), but we aren't too good at doing bad things to ourselves.
Motts, I'll personally pay you $80.00 for this month's bandwidth just for the pleasure I have had replying to this silliness. E-mail me your address and I'll drop a check in the mail in the morning. My tax return will be in my bank account in under two weeks and my check will even be good. :-)
Yes, from where I banged my head against the wall . . . I couldn't get the right temperature going from faucette to faucette. How do you get warm water that way ? ? ?