Word: electroshocks
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Most of the details of Papa's eventual hospitalization at the Mayo Clinic, where he received electroshock treatment, have been told before. But Hotchner gives them a special poignancy. There is, for example, an account of Hotchner's last visit, in June 1961, when Hemingway, suffering from delusions and high blood pressure, complained bitterly: "What does a man care about? Staying healthy. Working good. Eating and drinking with his friends. Enjoying himself in bed. I haven't any of them. Do you understand, goddamn it? None of them!" And so, less than a month later, Papa Hemingway...
...bluff his way into a mental hospital where Psychotic Killer Roddy McDowall may or may not reveal the location of $1,000,000 in stolen cash. But malevolent Psychiatrist Lauren Bacall also craves money, to continue her research. When she hits on Whitman's game, she prescribes electroshock therapy, then injects a concoction into his jugular vein to induce catatonia...
...plagued by cirrhosis of the liver, high blood pressure and severe mental depression. In November 1960, he went to the Mayo Clinic, where he received 15 electroshock treatments; in April he went back for ten more. "Temporarily he seemed more alert, less withdrawn, less depressed." But when he was released at the end of June, his weight was down from his normal 200 to a gaunt...
...that if hepatitis caused the deaths, the jury must decide whether Weiner's negligence caused his patients to get the disease. From the dead there was only the dubious testimony of death certificates, but patients who had recovered from hepatitis painted a gruesome picture. Weiner relied heavily on electroshock treatments, and estimated that for these he gave infusions of a muscle relaxant in one out of ten cases. He also used narcoanalysis. injecting a barbiturate into an arm vein. Patient after patient testified that he had seen blood from previous use at the ends of syringes and plastic infusion...
...much." "Charlotte, you look so tired. Do go take a nap now." "Charlotte, we simply have to go to Boston and get you some decent clothes." Charlotte (Jean Simmons) has just come home from a mental hospital, where she has spent a year and undergone eight applications of electroshock, and her stepmother (Mabel Albertson) is determined to do her duty by the unfortunate creature-no matter how unpleasant it may be for both of them...