Posted by stargazer2 on November 25, 2013, at 22:02:27
In reply to Re: Anyone receiving TMS recently/Hugh » stargazer2, posted by Phillipa on November 25, 2013, at 18:07:17
My point was that a demented person should not be given ECT as they are not able to consent to the procedure. The pdoc was unconcerned when I pointed this out to him, his concern was to nuke as many people as he could in a given day with disregard for ones quality of life, not to even get into the risk of anesthesia at that age. The pdoc had convinced her family that ECT was the right choice when someone had stopped eating. My concern was that in order to do the procedure there needed to be a court order or conservatorship to be legally appropriate. The
pdoc felt otherwise. This is abuse of the elderly
and an abuse of medical ethics. I'm afraid it happens more often than is commonly known.Health care still is abusive when it come to those patients that are elderly or depressed, anytime ones capacity to reason is compromised.
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