re: Boardwalk Empire Series Finale (Season 5, Ep 8 "Eldorado")

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I meant in reference to the time period. Both were horrible places but for some reason it seems in asylums it was ok to experiment on the patients.

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At least the public hospitals got away from that image. I will be retiring in a bit, and my personal frustration was my inability to change the mental hospital culture. We need the hospitals. But we need to move from an asylum model to a rehabilitation/active treatment model. People will talk the talk, but getting them to walk it is another thing. We need to remember that those folks admitted as patients are still human beings and deserve at least that instead of staff hollering at them all the time and herding them like cattle. I don't know about others, but I sure as hell wouldn't handle being hollered at all the time. I always tried to preach the ideology that we needed to do what we could to help the person eventually leave the hospital in better shape than when they landed on our doorstep. For awhile I had a crew that was on board with that approach, but they got wiped out due to layoffs favoring seniority instead of performance. But for a bit, we tried.