Despite calls for a ban on the use of ECT without anesthesia, doctors in Baghdad say they often have little choice.
For months the therapy has been administered without anesthesia because the hospital's anesthesiologists all fled the city. The World Health Organization has called for a ban on all ECT therapy without anesthesia.
ABC News has a slide show about A Day in a Baghdad Psych Hospital
Thursday, June 19, 2008
ECT in Baghdad
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