Rosenhan was able to get eight pseudopatients admitted into the hospitals from both the east and west coasts. The patients were either male or female and were from different backgrounds. Rosenhan told the participants to say they heard voices in tones that were similar to their own to the admitting staff, and once the patients were inside the hospital and being treated they were then told to act sanely. Thus, by acting sanely the staff thought the patients were acting insanely like when the one patient wanted to write down the name of the medicine he was on and the doctor just told the patient to keep asking him, or when the patients wanted to take notes of their experiences and the staff didn’t care, or when the patient was upset with the
