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Whitman had visited several University doctors who had prescribed him various medications in the year prior to the shootings.

According to a list subsequently compiled by investigating officers, Whitman had seen at minimum of five doctors between the fall and winter of 1965, before he had visited a psychiatrist from whom he received no prescription.

He was prescribed Valium by a doctor named Jan Cochrum, who recommended he visited the campus psychiatrist.

Maurice Dean Heatly, the staff psychiatrist at the University of Texas Health Center, subsequently met Whitman on March 29, 1966.

Whitman had mentioned his visit with Heatly in his final suicide notes.

This section of Whitman's final note had reflected: " I talked with a Doctor once for about two hours and tried to convey to him my fears that I felt come ( sic ) overwhelming violent impulses.

After one visit, I never saw the Doctor again, and since then have been fighting my mental turmoil alone, and seemingly to no avail.