EPISODE · Jan 18, 2026 · 2 MIN
When Restraints Were Medical Treatment
from The Caduceus Files · host J Shoot
For decades, hospitals restrained patients under physician orders.Straps, cuffs, and locked positions were used not as punishment, but as prescribed care.Stillness was recorded as improvement.Compliance was mistaken for recovery.This is the history of mechanical restraint in institutional medicine—and how control was confused for treatment.
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