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Seen through the eyes of the patients who lived there, Inside Oregon State Hospital” examines the world of the Northwest’s oldest mental hospital, established in 1883. In desperate attempts to cure their patients, physicians injected them with deadly medications, cut holes of their heads, and sterilized them. Years of insufficient funding caused the hospital to decay into a crumbling facility with too few body of workers, as seen within the 1975 film “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” As of late, after a $360 million makeover, Oregon State Hospital is a brand new remedy hospital for the state’s civil and forensic mentally sick. On this compelling account of the institution’s tragedies and triumphs, creator Diane Goeres-Gardner offers an unparalleled take a look at the very human story of Oregon’s historic asylum.”