Dean Brooks

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Real-Life Cuckoo’s Nest Doctor Dead at 96
Real-Life Cuckoo's Nest
Doctor Dead at 96
obituary

Real-Life Cuckoo's Nest Doctor Dead at 96

Dean Brooks had role in film, was regarded as psychiatric reformer

(Newser) - Dean Brooks ran Oregon's state psychiatric hospital for nearly three decades and gained a reputation as a patients' advocate and an innovator in how they were treated. That's why his obituary—he died Thursday at age 96—is in Oregon's Statesman Journal . But the reason he has...

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