Exactly. Like an asylum. They're not nearly as bad as they used to be - for example, homosexuality isn't considered a mental illness anymore. [Oh, the field day the doctors would have had with that one.] And a number of the more cruel methods of "healing" have fallen out of practice.

Still, that doesn't make this a good event by any means. All of the "doctors" still think we've taken a dive off the deep end.