FDA revisits risks of electric shock treatment
Saturday, March 19, 2011 - 23:30
in Health & Medicine
Modern shock therapy is safe and effective, proponents argue, but others say the long-term risks are too uncertain.They used to call it "Edison's medicine" or, with a touch of gallows humor, a "Georgia Power cocktail" — the practice of hooking mentally troubled patients up to an electrical current and jolting them until they went into convulsions.