"SCOTTISH mental health patients have been given electric shock treatment without consent more than 900 times over the past nine years, new figures reveal." > This is horrific, imho. https://www.express.co.uk/scotland/881387/NHS-mental-health-patients-electric-shock-treatment-consent/amp?__twitter_impression=true …
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ECT is administered under anaesthesia. To get consent if patient or their family cannot give i, then law requires independent medical opinion, not treating team, to agree to it
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I do see where you're coming from. Anaesthetising somebody may be the kinder way of forcing treatment, but doesn't in itself convince me though tbh. And finding medical opinion which is truly independent isn't always straightforward.
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The anaesthetic is nothing to do with kindness. The treatment induces seizures. Anaesthetic and muscle paralysis is about patient safety.
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I struggle with this, but I don't know enough about it. I'm still uncomfortable with imposed treatment that includes such potentially dangerous side-effects. But the alternative? That's where I run out of knowledge.
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