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...drug that Dr. D. O. Nutter and Dr. R. A. Massumi recommend is diazepam, which under its trade name, Valium, is among the best-known, best-selling tranquilizers in the world today. Psychiatric patients take it by swallowing tablets, but the G.W. doctors recommend giving it by intravenous injection to patients with heartbeat abnormalities. As a result, they say, the patients are sedated gently but so deeply that they wake up with no memory of the jolting shock, and with heartbeats restored to normal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cardiology: A Safer Shock for the Heart | 10/1/1965 | See Source »

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