diary of a medical student

Yet I knew all about it – because I was there.
HJW
ISBN 978-1451500530
9 781451 500530
HARVEY J. WIDROE M.D. WITH RON KENNER
Dr Harvey Widroe is an internationally
known psychiatrist who over decades has
treated thousands of patients—many with
serious mental illness. Apart from his work
caring for patients he has developed and
helped operate a number of psychiatric
hospitals. He has lectured extensively
throughout the United States and the
U.K. He has also written a wide variety of
scientific papers for professional journals,
a series of regular columns for an online newspaper, as well as book chapters
and a psychiatric textbook, Ego Psychology
and Psychiatric Treatment Planning, now a
psychiatric classic. Dr Widroe has recently
written the award winning book, The
Smart Dieters Cheating Guide. Through
The Diary of a Medical Student: Hospital
of Horrors Dr Widroe, along with Ron
Kenner, brings us face to face with many
of our society’s abysmal attempts to deal
with the mentally ill.
DIARY OF A MEDICAL STUDENT
For most mentally ill patients the blue bus ride to
Manteno State Hospital was a one way trip. The 24-houra-day nightmare of schizophrenic psychosis was horrible
enough. But the added misery of indefinite living in a
packed human warehouse was compounded by crude,
frequently barbaric efforts at so-called treatment. Most of
this was hidden from view.
DIARY OF
A MEDICAL
STUDENT
HOSPITAL OF
HORRORS
BY
HARVEY J.WIDROE, M.D.
WITH RON KENNER