PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Julie K Hersh
TI  - Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) from the patient's perspective
AID  - 10.1136/medethics-2012-101195
DP  - 2013 Mar 01
TA  - Journal of Medical Ethics
PG  - 171--172
VI  - 39
IP  - 3
4099  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/39/3/171.short
4100  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/39/3/171.full
SO  - J Med Ethics2013 Mar 01; 39
AB  - This is a response to Dr Charlotte Rosalind Blease's paper ‘Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT), the Placebo Effect and Informed Consent’, written by Julie K. Hersh who has had ECT. Hersh argues that placebo effect is impossible to prove without endangering the lives of participants in the study. In addition, informing potential ECT patients of unproven placebo effect could discourage patients from using a procedure that from experience has proven highly effective.