Is it moral to use electric shocks by the doctor to treat the patiant?

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Yes. There are two uses of electric shocks I can think of. Defibrillators are used to start the heart if it has stopped or if it is in fibrillation. You often see it being used in emergency wards on TV shows.
Electro convulsive therapy has been used for a very long time for some mental illnesses. The shocks are administered while the patient is under a general anaesthetic. Patients who receive ECT report that it makes them feel a lot better and the improvements are measurable.

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to be honest I dont really know.
But I did take a phycology class, and little things like that can mess people up.Like there was a babby, and phycologists would strick a gong every time the baby came in contact with a bunny. They did it to see if the baby would freak out around bunnys for the rest of his life, but he ended up way more messed up then that.Doing things that hurt people or scare people isn't a good idea in my opinion.

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What type of shocks are you talking about, and where are they applied?In Electroconvulsive Therapy, for example, an AC voltage of 70 - 150V 60Hz is applied across both sides of the head (bilateral) or one side of the head (unilateral) for a few seconds. It's used to try to alleviate treatment-resistant depression. The bilateral procedure is very controversial, but the unilateral one seems to give good and safe results.It's also legal. That doesn't make it moral, of course. Here's a complete rundown on it, with pro and con resources.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/electroconv...Big Al Mintaka

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