Word: electroshocked
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...bill regulating the use of electroshock therapy for mental patients will be filed by state senator Jack H. Backman '48, on the heels of a protest rally last Saturday at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital...
Backman's bill aims to prevent indiscriminate war of electroshock. It would limit the number of treatments to an individual to 12 per year, compared to the current limit...
...Electroshock therapy is used by approximately 10 hospitals in this area, according to Martin Bander, director of news and public affairs at MGH. Two of Harvard's 13 affiliated hospitals offer electroshock therapy...
...Mental Patients Liberation Front, the group which staged Saturday's rally, feels electroshock therapy should not be allowed. "It is harmful and should be banned, like heroin," Carol Maddox, a protestor, said. "Electroshock works by destroying brain cells and tissue...
...staff researcher for the Senate Committee on Human Services who wished to remain unidentified said profit motives often influences the decision to use electroshock therapy...