FYI
Dickibus
From: KimmieLee Reinert <KSTUD...@aol.com>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.tbi-support
To: TBI-...@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU <TBI-...@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU>
Date: 21 April 1999 00:18
Subject: Re: [TBI-SPRT] FYI
>Electroconvulsive Therapy is not an outlawed practice. It is most often
used
>in patients with severe depression who don't respond to any other
treatment.
>The most common side effect is headache and temporary loss of memory. I
>haven't heard of it being used for people with TBI's.
But the older inhabitants off the list will remember Capn. Cal, whose mind
was permanently damaged by about 17 of these treatments, under compulsion.
I feel that the docs in this case not only made a mistake, they made a
living mistake that I sincerely hope they can never forget.
Just because a doctor is in charge of a locked ward doesn't neccessarily
mean that he does have the right answers whilst his patients are terrified
of them. I wish a lot more would realise and accept that.
Sorry to be curt. Bad day, bad night..... maybe worse to come
Dickibus
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>Kim (TBI 2/12/98)