Jack & Elsie were both patients in a mental hospital. One day while they
were walking past the hospital swimming pool, Jack suddenly jumped into the
deep end. He sank to the bottom of the pool and stayed there.
Elsie promptly jumped in to save him. She swam to the bottom and pulled
Jack out. When the medical director became aware of Elsie's heroic act, he
immediately ordered her to be discharged from the hospital, as he now
considered her to be mentally stable.
When he went to tell Elsie the news, he said "Elsie I have good news and
bad news. The good news is you are being discharged; since you were able to
rationally respond to a crisis by jumping in and saving the life of
another patient, I have concluded that your act displays sound mindedness.
The bad news is, Jack, the patient you saved, hung himself with his
bathrobe belt in the bathroom. I am sorry, but he's dead."
Elsie replied, "He didn't hang himself...I put him up there to dry. How
soon did you say I can go home?"
were walking past the hospital swimming pool, Jack suddenly jumped into the
deep end. He sank to the bottom of the pool and stayed there.
Elsie promptly jumped in to save him. She swam to the bottom and pulled
Jack out. When the medical director became aware of Elsie's heroic act, he
immediately ordered her to be discharged from the hospital, as he now
considered her to be mentally stable.
When he went to tell Elsie the news, he said "Elsie I have good news and
bad news. The good news is you are being discharged; since you were able to
rationally respond to a crisis by jumping in and saving the life of
another patient, I have concluded that your act displays sound mindedness.
The bad news is, Jack, the patient you saved, hung himself with his
bathrobe belt in the bathroom. I am sorry, but he's dead."
Elsie replied, "He didn't hang himself...I put him up there to dry. How
soon did you say I can go home?"
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