Legal aspects of electrotherapy in a catatonic renal transplant patient
Bernstein, I.C.; Bernstein, D.M.; Adzick, G.R.
Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 39(3): 252-253
1978
ISSN/ISBN: 0160-6689 PMID: 344307 Document Number: 129426
The treatment of a case of catatonic schizophrenia in a renal transplanted patient is presented and demonstrates that electrotherapy can be life-saving and that there are already adequate legal controls which guarantee the patient's rights. Yet zealots are attempting to have legislators pass laws preventing the use of electrotherapy even in voluntary patients. To help prevent these resolutions from being passed, psychiatrists must become more active in the legislative process.