First thought was a big scandal in Sydney, shortly after i arrived, involving electric shock therapy .. ummm, not here i don't think .. excerpt ..
Ernest Hemingway, American author, committed suicide shortly after ECT at the Mayo Clinic in 1961. He is reported to have said to his biographer, "Well, what is the sense of ruining my head and erasing my memory, which is my capital, and putting me out of business? It was a brilliant cure but we lost the patient...."[120]
In a letter to the editor published in the Washington Post in December, 2000, registered nurse Barbara C. Cody wrote that her life was forever changed by 13 outpatient ECTs she received in 1983. She wrote,
"Shock 'therapy' totally and permanently disabled me. EEGs [electroencephalograms] verify the extensive damage shock did to my brain. Fifteen to 20 years of my life were simply erased; only small bits and pieces have returned. I was also left with short-term memory impairment and serious cognitive deficits. ... Shock 'therapy' took my past, my college education, my musical abilities, even the knowledge that my children were, in fact, my children. I call ECT a rape of the soul."[121]
Similarly, writer Johnanton Cott claims to have completely lost 15 years of memory in On the Sea of Memory: A Journey from Forgetting to Remembering. [122]
Despite former patients having reported devastating, permanent amnesia and cognitive impairment since ECT was first invented, the first lawsuit for ECT amnesia, Marilyn Rice v. John Nardini, was not brought until 1975; dozens of suits followed. While there have been a few settlements, including one for half a million dollars, no former patient had won a case until 2005. In a 2005 South Carolina court proceeding, Peggy S. Salters became the first ECT survivor to win a jury verdict and compensation. Ms. Salters sued Palmetto Baptist Medical Center in Columbia, as well as the three doctors responsible for her care, for an intensive course of outpatient ECT that she received in 2000, at age 55 years old, that caused her to lose all memories of the past 30 years of her life, including all memories of her husband of three decades, then deceased, and the births of her three children. She held a Masters of Science in nursing and, prior to the ECT, had a long career as a psychiatric nurse; but, as a result of the ECT, lost her knowledge of nursing skills and was unable to return to work. The jury awarded Salters $635,177 in compensation for her inability to work.[123] The judgement was upheld upon appeal in an unpublished opinion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroconvulsive_therapy
AHA! .. this is the one i was thinking of .. Harry Bailey ..
Deep Sleep Therapy: Australian Chelmsford Scandal Australian Chelmsford Scandal
Twenty-six patients died at Chelmsford Private Hospital during the 1960s and 1970s, with only perfunctory investigation by authorities. After the failure of the agencies of medical and criminal investigation to tackle complaints about Chelmsford, a series of articles in the early 1980s in the Sydney Morning Herald .. http://www.museumstuff.com/learn/topics/Sydney_Morning_Herald .. exposed the abuses at the hospital and forced the authorities to take action, and a Royal Commission was appointed.
In 1978 Sydney psychiatrist Brian Boettcher had convened a meeting of doctors working at Chelmsford and found there was little support for deep sleep therapy Harry Bailey did not attend. However the treatment continued to be used into the following year. Legal action on behalf of former patients was and is still being pursued in New South Wales .. http://www.museumstuff.com/learn/topics/New_South_Wales ...
* The New South Wales Royal Commission into Chelmsford Private Hospital: Available in reference form at the N.S.W. State Library. * Jones, D. Gareth. March 1990 " Contemporary Medical Scandals: A Challenge to Ethical Codes and Ethical Principles ." Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith. No. 42, pp. 2–14 * Anderson, Ian. January 1991 " Nightmare on Chelmsford, Sydney ." New Scientist magazine, 05 January 1991. No. 1750
I wonder if a cranial collision with a windshield at the termination of a 100m/hr+ off the road and bounce trick could have stimulated anything .. lol .. yup, on the Banff-Jasper highway ..
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