Watching crazy hospitals

     It’s awful when doctors don’t hear their patients, as if they were guardians of truth. Even worse when the client‘s life depends on that information. The reality might sound sad, unfortunately, the majority of our psychiatric public hospitals physicians has nothing to do with doctor House’s competence. An entire environment “forgotten” by the government would, of course, result in precocious diagnoses of normal citizens, lack of hospital structure and a barely prepared staff of doctors. Again the humanity’s friend called corruption is present.

Imagine an innocent, being judged guilty and having to accept the consequences of such an injustice. It’s almost the same thing of judging someone, who might have some esquizofrenic symptoms, as totally crazy, then start to administrate haldol to him. This medication is used to reduce hallucination symptoms at the price of accelerating the famous Parkinson’s disease, depression for the time it is being used. Now, this depression is usually treated with electroshocks, when the Parkinson is not induced, however, haldol can induce this symptom. Whenever nurses realize that the patients are depressed they report to these superb doctors, who order them to start the shock therapy. As a result, the patient is drugged and forced to take unnecessary and inefficient electroshocks.

The psychiatric hospitals are not usually located at the same places of regular ones. The main reason is simple, patients with mind disturbs are potentially dangerous to themselves, other patients, and everyone who may be visiting or walking through the hospital’s grounds. Indeed, São Paulo’s public hospitals are in generall well conserved. By the other hand, sanatories are usually very damaged. There was one called Bom Retiro, at Santa Catarina, who has it’s entrance very well conserved, a lot of green areas, some sunpaths and fountains. But inside the place, a terrible smell due to the constipation caused by the haldol on the patients. Separate rooms for each patient, cleaned once per week, with one almost permanently dirty toilet and a bed with a mattress filled with straw. It’s not required much effort to visualize the food gave to those patients at these emprisonment’s days.

The same sanatory had only one pschyatric responsable for the whole contigent. To control the interns, the crew were nurses who had  trainment to control people with disturbs, but not a graduation to effectivelly know what they were doing. Some others sanatories reported deaths due to the wrong admnistration of medicine. One cronic patient suddenly blew out his intestines throught his anus in the middle of the path. Thousands of patients die every year, forgotten by their families, doctors, State.

Some sad information is telling that a huge part of government’s capital invested on health are destined to these kind of institutions. Certainly deal with mental perturbations is a very delicate and complicate task, however , so is to deal with surgeries and massive quantity of going to doctors appointments at public clinics. Corruption is spread on the most nasty areas it could be, merging in a point where pchyatrists don’t even know who really needs treatment.