Frankenstein-like experiments, no anesthesia and ‘child-torturing’ doctors: How Bellevue went from a desolate New York almshouse and mental hospital to top medical facility

– EXCLUSIVE: Frankenstein-like experiments, no anesthesia and ‘child-torturing’ doctors: How Bellevue went from a desolate New York almshouse and mental hospital to top medical facility

• Bellevue Hospital, located on the east side of New York City, first opened its doors in 1736
• Over the years it has been home to patients suffering from deadly and infectious diseases and those suffering from vicious mental illnesses
• Early on, it became known as a place that conducted Frankenstein-like experiments in the name of research – without anesthesia
• Operations included performing electroshock therapy on young children and thousands of unnecessary liver biopsies on alcoholic patients
• Bellevue’s 600 bed psychiatric building has been a revolving door for a long roster of celebrity patients including poet Sylvia Plath
• Today, the Manhattan hospital’s emergency services are second to none
• David Oshinsky gives a history of the hospital in his book, Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America’s Most Storied Hospital 

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