"Depois de terem sido praticamente abandonados na década de 70, os impulsos eléctricos voltaram a a ser usados nos principais hospitais do País para tratar doentes psiquiátricos. Sobretudo nas depressões graves. Em três deles, Santa Maria, Amadora-Sintra e Hospitais da Universidade de Coimbra, ...
...a opinião do psiquiatra João Cabral Fernandes. "É um método grosseiro e desumano", alerta o especialista, sublinhando que por ser uma prática recorrente no Hospital Júlio de Matos...
...Já Maria Luísa Figueira, directora do serviço de psiquiatria do Santa Maria, garante que o método é eficaz."
Translation
"After having been virtually abandoned in the 70s, the electro shocks are back again, and in use in major hospitals in the country to treat psychiatric patients. Especially in severe depressions. Hospitals like Santa Maria, Amadora-Sintra and Coimbra University Hospitals...
...The opinion of the psychiatrist John Fernandes Cabral. "This method is crude and inhuman," warns the expert, that this is a common practice at the Hospital Julio de Matos ...
...however Dra. Maria Luisa Figueira, director of the psychiatric service of the Santa Maria, ensures that the method is effective. "
http://www.dn.pt/inicio/portugal/interior.aspx?content_id=1369718
"Two neurosurgeons from the University of California, Davis have been banned from performing medical research on humans after they allegedly experimented on three patients without university permission...documents that allegedly show the surgeons obtained consent of three terminally ill patients with malignant brain tumours to introduce bacteria into their open head wounds in hopes that it might save their lives...the university has found that two of the three patients developed sepsis and died.
...One of the doctors, J. Paul Muizelaar, 65, holds a prestigious position as chair of the Department of Neurological Surgery. Rudolph Schrot, 44, worked under Muizelaar as an assistant professor and neurosurgeon.
Muizelaar, however, doesn't believe he did anything wrong."Muizelaar reportedly said, "there are people who blatantly break the rules that endanger all of their research programs. We certainly didn't blatantly trample any rules."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/23/j-paul-muizelaar-rudolph-uc-neurosurgeons_n_1695562.html
"In 2008, the doctors proposed treating a glioblastoma patient with bacteria applied to an open wound to "attack the tumor," then later withholding antibiotics and letting the bacteria do its work.
Schrot contacted the FDA but ultimately was cautioned that animal studies were needed first...And so the doctors continued with preclinical work, arranging for a rat study..." http://www.sacbee.com/2012/07/22/4648415/2-uc-davis-neurosurgeons-accused.html ...a rat study where at least that we know 2 patients human beings were killed..
Who are the people that this prestigious neurosurgeon with a position as chair of the Department of Neurological Surgery talks when he says "there are people who blatantly break the rules that endanger all of their research programs..." and who are the human guinea pigs of those people...can they be epileptics/people with other type of brain tumours?????
Are the articles about medical research that they said that are made with animals made with human beings??????Are human beings considered rats by some scientists, rats that they can play with and torture in studies similar to this :
"...Mice are exposed to an electric shock and learn to associate it with a neutral stimulus like the chamber in which they received the shock (contextual fear conditioning) or an auditory tone (cued fear conditioning).Memory is a high level brain function that allows organisms to modify their behaviour...RFID transponders (Datamars SA, Bedano, Switzerland) were injected subcutaneously in the dorso-cervical region under Isoflurane inhalation anesthesia"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3230787/
Consultant paediatrician Andrew Holton, who had no specialist training in epilepsy, ignored tests showing the youngsters did not suffer the condition and prescribed medication which turned them into 'zombies'.
Concerns about his attitude to patients were raised in 1995, and about his abilities three years later, but he wasn't suspended by Leicester Royal Infirmary until May 2001.
The possibility of subjecting Dr Holton's work to independent scrutiny was raised in 1999, but the hospital decided merely to monitor him themselves.
Yesterday that decision was branded a 'serious error of judgment' by an independent inquiry panel set up by the Department of Health.
Angry parents of children misdiagnosed by Dr Holton accused the University Hospitals of Leicester (UHL) NHS Trust of treating consultants 'like gods'.
Sue Parr of Enderby, Leicester, whose son Peter, 16, was wrongly diagnosed, said: 'I had tears in my eyes as the chief executive of the trust said sorry to us, because it is nothing but a glib word. 'We are angry the previous concerns have been revealed, and appalled they were not acted upon. This shows that consultants are treated like gods and it is believed that they cannot make mistakes.'
Some of the cases Dr Holton diagnosed began with children complaining of headaches or parents concerned about bad behaviour, clumsiness and falling behind at school.
When the children were given the drugs some became violent, others listless and some suffered temporary disabilities which left them in wheelchairs.
Out of 1,948 children, Dr Holton misdiagnosed epilepsy in 618 and wrongly put 500 on high dosages of drugs.
So far 400 families have launched legal action against the UHL NHS Trust, which could cost the Health Service £10million.
Dr Holton, 50, began work at Leicester Royal Infirmary in 1990. Complaints from patients and other paediatricians in the mid to late 1990s continued until his suspension.
One complainant, the inquiry learned, said Dr Holton had an 'abrupt approach, a tendency to rudeness and an apparently dismissive attitude towards parents and carers'.
It also discovered that Dr Alun Elias- Jones, then the hospital's clinical director, received letters from community paediatricians alarmed at Dr Holton's rate of epilepsy diagnosis and the 'unacceptable levels of clinical risk in children' late in 1998.
Dr Holton's own neurology nurse, Ann Brown, had expressed her fears about his methods and the high doses of drugs prescribed in a letter to the clinical director in 2000.
Dr Peter Reading, chief executive of the UHL NHS Trust, accepted that mistakes were made and expressed regret. The Trust is reviewing its complaints procedure.
A spokesman for Epilepsy Action said there were too few experts in childhood epilepsy, adding: 'The situation in Leicester could quite easily have happened elsewhere.'
Solicitors for the families are bringing similar, unrelated claims against Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, and hospitals in Doncaster, Manchester and Warrington.
Dr Holton has left the hospital but is thought to be retraining in another medical field."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-200349/Dr-Zombie-blundered-years.html#ixzz2fMD8qRZt
