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> Medical records also show that over the course of her eight-day stay, personnel at the hospital repeatedly tried to get Brock to deny three things before she
by zyxley 11y ago
> Medical records also show that over the course of her eight-day stay, personnel at the hospital repeatedly tried to get Brock to deny three things before she could be released: that she owned the BMW, that she was a professional banker, and that President Barack Obama followed her on Twitter.
What the hell? Anyone who did this to her should, at a minimum, be fired and blacklisted from the medical profession. How long would it take to verify these things? Sure as hell not eight days.
- coldtea 11y agoPlus, of course, they SHOULDN'T have assumed anything before verifying.
- 4lights 11y agoThere are four lights!
- superuser2 11y agoThis is a well-studied phenomenon of mental institutions: staff are acclimated to everyone in their presence being mentally ill and denying it. Consequently, they aren't exactly vigilant about finding exceptions. "The patient is lying and having delusions of grandeur" is probably an accurate assessment 99.999% of the time, so they are unlikely to doubt that assessment when the patient is in fact a researcher/journalist investigating the hospital.
- shalmanese 11y agoThis is the Rosenhan study (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment), called one of the most influential psycholocial studies of all time.