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At 02:57 PM 11/25/2000 -0800, you wrote: >"Desperation" is not a good indication for a given treatment. Would >"desperation" be a reasonable indication for undergoing brain >surgery? Open-heart surgery? Especially if there was very little >scientific evidence that those procedures would help in any real way? > >Shock treatments are every bit as risky as major surgery, in some ways >more than most surgeries. ECT should be considered in the same >category as surgery. > > >Best, > >Bob > > >********************************************** >Robert A. Fink, M. D., F.A.C.S., P. C. Bob, I think Nancy has expressed ,in her post, how desperate PWP's can,and do become, maybe if Paul had the option of Shock Treatment, this wouldn't have happened. I can't say what I'd do ,because I probably view death completely different than most people do. I certainly would rather be dead than live the living death of some of the patients I saw during my stay in an nursing home in 1996. There are some fates worse than death IMOHO. just me, Marjorie 68/58/55 ********************************************************************************************* Shortcut to Mail Options click here: http://parkinsons-information-exchange-network-online.com/mailopt.html