Original Article

Errors in Prognosis: status of Patients from Whom Spouses Were Granted Divorces as “Permanently and Incurably Insane with no Hope of Recovery”

Authors: IRENE L. HITCHMAN M.D.

Abstract

In the past several decades medicine has progressed so rapidly that predictions made upon occasion may be proven false a year later. The dramatic effect of the ataractic drugs in psychoses has not made its impression upon the profession outside of psychiatric circles. This paper points up one significant aspect of such therapy.

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