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HEWLETT: Many Mental Patients Abused

Letter From JASON HEWLETT Neglect Of Mental Patients Little Understood To the Editor: Right now there is nothing more important to me than making people aware of the ongoing abuse and neglect of patients on psychiatric units. This is still happening today in many hospitals here in NYS because of bad policies and bad protocols that need to change. These are the primary causes of patient abuse by psychiatrists and their nursing staff who ironically do mean well and want…