I don't know whether it's a good thing they stopped, or if the treatment should be implemented more widely ...
http://vip.itworldcanada.com/t?ctl=55BEC:46C72B916E3085485F0F92B7258676 78&&p=GO &sub=7345 "The [Chinese] hospital drew wide media coverage in recent months after Internet users claiming to have received the treatment wrote in blogs and forums about being tied down and subjected to shocks for 30 minutes at a time." "A statement on the Chinese health ministry's Web site said the practice had no medical foundation and forbid its clinical use." "Calls to the Shandong hospital went unanswered Wednesday morning, but a hospital spokeswoman last week said "sensationalized" media reports had already led it to cease the shock treatment. The shocks were meant to cause subjects to associate a negative result with Internet use, according to the hospital." In my dim and distant youth, I worked at a hospital. A couple of times, in the four years I was there, I had to help out with ECT on the psych ward. (I never saw anything like the horrorshows that are universally portrayed in the movies, although I never saw much evidence that it did much good, either.) I think I already knew, at the time, that ECT had originally been implemented as a means of artificially inducing seizures, since it had been observed that patients who had experienced seizures appeared to be somewhat more cogent for a time thereafter. As far as I know, nobody who believed in it as a treatment ever thought it had "negative reinforcement" value ... ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Shadwell hated all Southeners and, by inference, was standing at the North Pole. - `Good Omens,' Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm http://blog.isc2.org/isc2_blog/slade/index.html http://twitter.com/rslade http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ http://twitter.com/NoticeBored _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
