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Wilhelmina/Grace
In the novel-within-the-novel Bonds, Dr. Frahm is the head doctor at the Swiss sanatorium where Helen’s father, Leopold, was initially treated and where Helen seeks treatment after she begins experiencing symptoms of mental illness. When Benjamin first approaches Dr. Frahm about using one of the hospital wings to treat Helen exclusively, Dr. Frahm refuses. Benjamin then hires someone to impugn Dr. Frahm’s methods and arranges to withhold medication from the hospital until Dr. Frahm submits to Benjamin’s demands. With that in mind, Dr. Frahm represents how Benjamin (and, by extension, Andrew) uses his financial resources to bully and bulldoze principled people who try to stand up to him. Dr. Frahm treats Helen using a combination of talk therapy, outdoor activities, and lithium salts. Helen appears to improve, but Benjamin is dissatisfied with the care, perhaps because as Helen improves, she acts coldly toward Benjamin. Benjamin ultimately replaces Dr. Frahm with Dr. Aftus.
Dr. Frahm Quotes in Trust
The Trust quotes below are all either spoken by Dr. Frahm or refer to Dr. Frahm. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Book 1, Part 4
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[Benjamin] pledged a generous unrestricted endowment—and the funding of an entire new building for any branch of research the director saw fit. Dr. Frahm did not respond. Two weeks after the arrival of Benjamin’s letter, there was a brief article in Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift raising doubts about Dr. Frahm’s research protocol concerning clinical applications of lithium salts and other new substances on which the scientific community had scant and inconclusive information. The journal stated that an inquiry into Dr. Frahm’s methods was ongoing and promised to follow up as further reports became available. Shortly after the publication of this article, the Institute experienced a shortage of many drugs critical to the treatments it provided. All these drugs were patented by Haber Pharmaceuticals.
Before the end of that month, the northern wing had been cleared of patients and renovations were under way.
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Dr. Frahm Quotes in Trust
The Trust quotes below are all either spoken by Dr. Frahm or refer to Dr. Frahm. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Book 1, Part 4
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[Benjamin] pledged a generous unrestricted endowment—and the funding of an entire new building for any branch of research the director saw fit. Dr. Frahm did not respond. Two weeks after the arrival of Benjamin’s letter, there was a brief article in Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift raising doubts about Dr. Frahm’s research protocol concerning clinical applications of lithium salts and other new substances on which the scientific community had scant and inconclusive information. The journal stated that an inquiry into Dr. Frahm’s methods was ongoing and promised to follow up as further reports became available. Shortly after the publication of this article, the Institute experienced a shortage of many drugs critical to the treatments it provided. All these drugs were patented by Haber Pharmaceuticals.
Before the end of that month, the northern wing had been cleared of patients and renovations were under way.
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