Another Dramatic Event in the World of Shock Treatment

ANOTHER DRAMATIC EVENT IN THE WORLD OF SHOCK TREATMENT 

Why were the cases lost in trial There are no easy answers. In several of the cases in which I was involved, our side presented two, three, and even four medical experts who confirmed that shock causes brain damage. At the same time, the defendants could always find well-known professors of psychiatry to defend the treatment as essentially harmless and enormously beneficial. Probably it has been hard for juries to disentangle totally conflicting evidence from critics and advocates of the treatment. In addition, critics like me refuse to send patients for shock treatment, and of course, we do not administer it to patients, so the advocates can present themselves as the only experts with the clinical experience. In addition, it must be hard for juries to believe that so many doctors and so 

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