Lost Patients: Disease Without Knowledge

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   S2 · E3 · 10 Mar 2026 · 36 min

   Adults in the Room: Blame the Messenger

   The school district sends an investigator to Garfield to look into the allegations against Tom Hudson. Isolde and Ella wonder if they did the right thing.

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   S2 · E2 · 3 Mar 2026 · 41 min

   Adults in the Room: The Price of Belief

   Garfield High School is shocked after learning their beloved principal is in an inappropriate relationship with a student.

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   S2 · E1 · 24 Feb 2026 · 33 min

   Adults in the Room: Mounting Danger

   In 1998, a popular teacher at Garfield High School in Seattle falls into a crevasse while mountain-climbing in Olympic National Park. Six of his teenage students then pull off a daring rescue.

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   S2 · 3 Feb 2026 · 3 min

   Coming Soon: Adults in the Room (Trailer)

   The production team behind Lost Patients returns on February 24 with a new investigative series: Adults in the Room. Seattle, 1999. At Garfield High School, Mr. Hudson is a legend. With a thundering voice and imposing stature, Mr. Hudson — or “Tom” as select students call him — teaches biology and leads an elite outdoors program. But when teen reporters at the school paper start exploring a rumor that he sexually abused students, all hell breaks loose. Adults close ranks, and schoolmates turn on the young journalists. And then one day, a voice on the school intercom…

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   S1 · E7 · 26 Jun 2024 · 55 min

   Lost Patients Live: First-Person Stories from Seattle's Mental Health Crisis

   Lost Patients compares the system for treating mental illness in America to an elaborate house, where every room, hallway and staircase was designed independently by a different architect. So what is it like to be shuttled from room to room? What sorts of tradeoffs are doctors working within this system forced to make every day? And what might it look like to design care around the needs of patients? KUOW and the Seattle Times convened a forum at the Seattle Public Library to hear perspectives and answer questions. Featured guests included: Laura Van Tosh, patient advocate and founder and…

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   S1 · E5 · 9 Apr 2024 · 53 min

   Lost Patients: The Way Out

   After 10 months at Washington State's largest psychiatric hospital, Adam Aurand is discharged onto the streets of downtown Seattle — ejected into a world shaped by decades of deinstitutionalization and failure to build community-based mental health care. His mother rushes to save him before he gets pulled back into the "churn." A Seattle Times reporter tries to pinpoint where the discharge process failed — and the investigation leads her to new conclusions about the limitations of psychiatric care in the U.S. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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   S1 · E4 · 2 Apr 2024 · 46 min

   Lost Patients: Opening

   In the middle of the last century, a movement to free patients from state-run psychiatric hospitals swept the U.S. This movement — deinstitutionalization — is widely blamed for seriously mentally ill people ending up on the streets. The real story goes much deeper than a loss of psychiatric hospital beds. It's about how incentives and decisions half a century created the dysfunction many people with serious mental illness are lost in today. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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   S1 · E3 · 26 Mar 2024 · 48 min

   Lost Patients: Nostalgia

   After Carrie Davidson learned that her great-grandmother died in a psychiatric hospital, she spent years tracking down details of her life there. Was the asylum a refuge? Or a prison? This earlier era hangs like a shadow over our approach to care today. We peer into horror and nostalgia that surrounds our societal memories of these mental institutions — and try to sort out which narrative is true. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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   S1 · E2 · 19 Mar 2024 · 42 min

   Lost Patients: Against Their Will

   Across the U.S., efforts are underway to make it easier to involuntarily commit people to psychiatric hospitals. It's a reaction to the sight of seriously mentally ill people on the streets and the cries of families who say it's too hard to get a loved one help when they're in crisis. But this gets at one of the most delicate questions our society has faced: When does our belief about what's best for someone override someone's right to decide for themselves? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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    S1 · E1 · 12 Mar 2024 · 47 min

    Lost Patients: Churn

    Heidi Aurand has watched her son Adam spiral from one psychiatric crisis to the next for about eight years, bouncing between emergency rooms, jails, and homelessness. Now, after treatment at the state's largest psychiatric hospital, Adam was just released back onto the streets of downtown Seattle. A mother asks: How could her son pass through so many institutions and none are able to stop his decline? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.