I'm Dr. Thomas story Kirkbride, I was born in July 31 1809 to a family of Quakers, I am empathetic and have a heart of gold, I created the Kirkbride plan as a reform of asylums, I wanted to make the mentally ill be treated like regular people, I wrote a book called on The construction organization and general arrangements of hospitals for the insane, I was the director of the institute of the Pennsylvania Hospital, I'm a physician and alienist, I died in December 16 1883*