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.

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