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Episode 21 - Brain Stories Connections: The Astonishing Truth About Psych Wards with Morgan Shields

Anyone ever admitted to a hospital could be asked to rate their experience. Except one place - psych wards.

People who go into psychiatric hospitals were never sampled about their experience, until the year 2026. Because they weren't considered reliable or trustworthy.

Today we talk to Morgan Shields, a professor of public health, who has launched her career by asking who rates psych wards, if not those receiving the care? Who holds psychiatric units accountable? And why do their North Stars seem so wrong?

Morgan knows of what she speaks because as a teenager and young adult, she was both…

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