Stephen Seager Where Hell Is Other Patients Summary

In "Where Hell Is Other Patients," Stephen Seager explains everything wrong with today's hospitals for the criminally insane. Seager emphasis the fact that modern laws and regulations fail to protect the staff of these hospitals, allowing some violent patients to continually assault their caretakers. He also points out that assaults on les violent patients is also a problem. Seager claims that these problems come not only form poor governmental regulations, but also from oversights by the hospitals themselves. Seager also goes on to call out some of the organizations that are supposed to help out the patients and staff of these hospitals, saying that they are ineffective. He concludes by suggesting several ways that hospitals and the …show more content…
He not only strengthens his arguments, he attacks the organizations that he blames for causing the problems. This creates a two way appeal to logic. He shows an example for this effect. He states, “For example, despite criminally insane patients being remanded by the courts for psychiatric treatment, many states allow them to refuse both therapy and medication.” He explains the example beforehand to make sure the audience knows what he’s talking about. Through all of this, Stephen Seager does quite a remarkable job when he uses reasoning to convince his audience.
Stephen Seager does quite a good job on his article, “Where Hell Is Other Patients.” This is not very surprising considering that he wrote it for the New York Times. He has exceptional credibility, especially since he works at the hospitals that he is constantly describing. His emotional appeal is way above average due to his imagery and ability to manipulate words. His logical appeal is backed by numerous facts and statistics that are not misleading. Seager has definitely done the best he can to convince his audience that mental health institutions are hellish places, and not always for just the