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by dragonwriter 1645 days ago
> Not just scandals in the sense of individual acts, but changes in thinking about patient rights.

The two are linked, there was an absolute wave of scandals in the sense of abusive (often systematic rather than individual) acts in particular institutions that were instrumental in getting people to rethink patient rights; without them, the institutionalized would probably have remained out of sight and out of mind.