Two times -- the last in the early 1990s. One was in a state hospital, the second in a private hospital, associated with a well-regarded medical school. I'd say the atmosphere in the private hospital was worse. In the state hospital was a lot of depression, an atmosphere of hopelessness, but in the private hospital the attitude of the staff seemed to me to be that patients were mostly recalcitrant, stupid children.
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Now if thou would'st
When all have given him o'er
From death to life
Thou might'st him yet recover
-- Michael Drayton 1562 - 1631
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