JamesWhitehead
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James - any idea what hospital the women with the disappearing baby is/was at?
I had clean forgotten those stories. Now they have come back to haunt me. 2001 is a long way back.
A lot of medical horror stories used to come from close family members who have worked in hospitals, care-homes etc. They have not done much psychiatric nursing beyond the geriatric ward stuff.
I think any psychiatric ward tales would have come from acquaintances in Manchester at that period. Some may have been reminiscing about things they had witnessed on the wards at a time when Care-in-the-Community was the excuse for shutting many facilities. The places most talked about were Prestwich Hospital, the North Manchester General complex and Rainhill which is (or was) in the Wigan area.
I wish I had written more of these stories down but even then, as the last paragraph makes clear, I took them with a pinch of salt. Not the products of liars but part of the way people cope with a daily reality most of us never see.