Yes, I think the CDC, lockdowns, and mandates have destroyed so much trust, people will have to stop using the pro vaccine label. I think they will have to call themselves pro evidence based medicine because that label has come to mean people who force medical interventions with neutral-to-negative benefit ratios with school and colleges…
Yes, I think the CDC, lockdowns, and mandates have destroyed so much trust, people will have to stop using the pro vaccine label. I think they will have to call themselves pro evidence based medicine because that label has come to mean people who force medical interventions with neutral-to-negative benefit ratios with school and colleges requirements.
Doctors don't call themselves pro intubation or pro electroshock therapy, do they? These are all just tools, and a single tool isn't fit for every job, no matter what the pro-hammer lobby says.
I agree with most of your comment with the exception of the “ pro electroshock therapy” doctors. There is an important debate raging about not only the use of ect but it’s increasing use amongst young teenagers and expanding its use for more and more “ diagnostic labels” . Ect is as barbaric as lobotomies and needs to be banned until and unless well designed randomized controlled trials are done with follow up for 2 to 5 yrs post the last ect. There are only a few poorly designed trials from the 1970 s that don t follow the groups beyond 6 months. Ect has never been through FDA approval process but was “ grandfathered “ in decades ago. Ect has never been shown to be either safe or effective. Ect is however hugely profitable for psychiatrists,anesthesiologists, and the facilities that offer it. Psych patients who are permanently damaged by ect have no voice as all their reports of symptoms are uniformly blamed”on their underlying diagnosis “. Because they are already labeled as “ crazy “ they have no credibility and malpractice lawyers refuse to take their cases.
As this is an article authored by a frum doctor , I will add that I was contacted by a frum person asking if I would agree to talk to a Satmat chossid about ect,as he wanted to have his wife undergo a series of ect . She was post partum her second child. I asked about her symptoms, “ was she truly depressed and asking for help, or did she not want to be pressured into another pregnancy right away ? Or did she no longer want to wear her “ sheitel”(wig) ? It was the latter 2. Her husband wanted to use psychiatry and ect to control the poor young woman.
In summary, ECT has no basis in science. It causes permanent and varied brain dysfunction( severe dense retrograde amnesia that is permanent ,
loss of ability to experience human emotions( no joy, no sadness, no empathy, no ambition, no desire, no love in people who experienced these vital human emotions prior to ect so they are acutely aware of what was erased), as well as other more subtle cognitive problems. Psychiatry has become the wild Wild West. There is no reporting on ect, no standard parameters for amp mount of current used, variable lead placement( uni vs bilateral ) . There is zero patient follow up. It is a true scandal and it’s use is growing.
Thank you for writing this, Disa🙏🏼🙏🏼 My mother was given ECT when her father, an Orthopedic Surgeon, was killed by medical error. They gave him the wrong blood type in a transfusion during surgery. She became incapable of mothering my 3 siblings and I, the youngest. This created a great deal of trauma for my siblings and I.
Yes, I think the CDC, lockdowns, and mandates have destroyed so much trust, people will have to stop using the pro vaccine label. I think they will have to call themselves pro evidence based medicine because that label has come to mean people who force medical interventions with neutral-to-negative benefit ratios with school and colleges requirements.
Doctors don't call themselves pro intubation or pro electroshock therapy, do they? These are all just tools, and a single tool isn't fit for every job, no matter what the pro-hammer lobby says.
I agree with most of your comment with the exception of the “ pro electroshock therapy” doctors. There is an important debate raging about not only the use of ect but it’s increasing use amongst young teenagers and expanding its use for more and more “ diagnostic labels” . Ect is as barbaric as lobotomies and needs to be banned until and unless well designed randomized controlled trials are done with follow up for 2 to 5 yrs post the last ect. There are only a few poorly designed trials from the 1970 s that don t follow the groups beyond 6 months. Ect has never been through FDA approval process but was “ grandfathered “ in decades ago. Ect has never been shown to be either safe or effective. Ect is however hugely profitable for psychiatrists,anesthesiologists, and the facilities that offer it. Psych patients who are permanently damaged by ect have no voice as all their reports of symptoms are uniformly blamed”on their underlying diagnosis “. Because they are already labeled as “ crazy “ they have no credibility and malpractice lawyers refuse to take their cases.
As this is an article authored by a frum doctor , I will add that I was contacted by a frum person asking if I would agree to talk to a Satmat chossid about ect,as he wanted to have his wife undergo a series of ect . She was post partum her second child. I asked about her symptoms, “ was she truly depressed and asking for help, or did she not want to be pressured into another pregnancy right away ? Or did she no longer want to wear her “ sheitel”(wig) ? It was the latter 2. Her husband wanted to use psychiatry and ect to control the poor young woman.
In summary, ECT has no basis in science. It causes permanent and varied brain dysfunction( severe dense retrograde amnesia that is permanent ,
loss of ability to experience human emotions( no joy, no sadness, no empathy, no ambition, no desire, no love in people who experienced these vital human emotions prior to ect so they are acutely aware of what was erased), as well as other more subtle cognitive problems. Psychiatry has become the wild Wild West. There is no reporting on ect, no standard parameters for amp mount of current used, variable lead placement( uni vs bilateral ) . There is zero patient follow up. It is a true scandal and it’s use is growing.
Thank you for writing this, Disa🙏🏼🙏🏼 My mother was given ECT when her father, an Orthopedic Surgeon, was killed by medical error. They gave him the wrong blood type in a transfusion during surgery. She became incapable of mothering my 3 siblings and I, the youngest. This created a great deal of trauma for my siblings and I.
Myriam, I would really like to communicate with you directly. please email me at disa.sacks@ gmail.com
Just saw your message, Disa. I will email you tomorrow.
Please do
I will email you today, in a little bit! Sorry! I got very busy and forgot.