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Dr. Arnold Blmberg

Hillside Hospital
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Deer Arnold:

It has been sonar weeks about

opportunity to talk

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it

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research problems.

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have bed en
going very well,

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for tin last few weeks I have had w first opportunity to work with pstients
in the new setting. I me writing because I believe we here as metal opportunity
to oerry out a study which may be of interest to you. As I review the oherte or
sub of my patients, I find that they have been on psychotropic medication for
months, and in some instances, for years. Today I saw a men who hes been
receiving 3 vesioty of phenothissines since 1956 without a significant period
without medication. As I recollect, you were quite oonosmod some years ago
about the longutorm effects of such mdioation. I do have the opportunity to
take those patients off medication, and this will be data. None or the patients
have had an adequate work-up before hand so that it would be impossible to nuke
any statement regarding s "shame" in any medical measures. However, if we
simply survey 9. large umber of subjects we shmld be able to make s aux-mine.
tion of mother or not certain blood constituents or functions are "abnormal"
for the ego.
end

Home my questions. is Gould first ask for a white count, differential
hemoglobin and other of the blood elements. Also, s. "liver profile". These
ere the routine studies which oould be dorm. However; I an sonoemed thet
ﬁe were to take snob measures only, then we would probably gain very little
information. Are were some laboratory studies, albeit not routine, that you
or Hemnight suggest tomb such a study worthwhile?

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As you sen
it is e lot of work. I move patients to the wards
gun,
we bed our dedisetion on the 22nd. That went very well
in lid-Ootober, end
end I believe that us have s. pest deal of support, not only fronthe Governor
end the politioiens, but the wblio es all. W staff is growing end if ell
the candidates who hen agreed to ems, some betmen new end next Jen, I
should heme e very 1well qualified experimental group. I new Just let it
be known thet I en interested in the essistenoe or s full-tine plosioien for
our resemh wows. The hospital bee a large audios}. start and tor relationship to thee ms hes been quite good. I hope, on one of your visits to the

�mow-It, that you will have tho oooasion to visit with no and by then I
should be able to show you laboratories that my be a. happy outgrowth
of our Hillside experiences.
The

children are quite! happy in whool

and have made Manda very
very satisfactory and I an plowed with mob that.
I have found in St. Louis. As one can expect, the most difficult part of
no): a move is the loss or Moms.

quickly.

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013 last. note. I have had
opportuniw to go over the Hillsido
data on a few occasions. I 1mm: that Mu ham written to tho computing
cantor of. Washington University roqmoting sons
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best. regards

to Barbara

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yourself.
Sincerely yours,
MISSOURI INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY

Max

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