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He recounts an episode where his 83 year old mother was admitted to the hospital over bowel issues and two days into her stay there she started developing horrible hallucinations of people crawling on the walls and became aggressive and rude towards the staff even trying to physically escape at one point. The staff had to call the author but when he showed up his mother became convinced that it was actually her mad-scientist son orchestrating the whole affair, inducing these hallucinations into her mind with the medicine the doctors were administering for some kind of experiment. It took two weeks for her to return to a semi-normal state, but the psychotic episode left scars on her behavior.
It's called hospital-induced delirium and apparently one-third of all elderly patients develop it post-admission (even higher occurrence if surgery is involved).