Thomas Wolfe's Accusations At Johns Hopkins Hospital
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The hospital has been accused of many unethical treatments and/or research over the many years of its existence that have made the institution not fill Johns Hopkins true intentions. For example; Thomas Wolfe along with family and friends were patients at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Wolfe’s father had prostate cancer and was receiving radium treatments (much like Henrietta Lack’s radium treatments), so his family only visited him two times before he passed away quickly in the hospital. “Wolfe shared his family’s deep distrust of doctors and hospitals…His rendering of Johns Hopkins Hospital, which seems at odds with the institution’s reputation, reveals much fear and uncertainty about the place. As a result of his visits to Johns Hopkins, Wolfe