Pendulums in Medical Practice: ECT is One of the Examples
Out on PubMed, from an author in Pennsylvania, is this article: Pendulums in medical practice. Kant ME. Med Leg J. 2025 Mar 27:258172241304558. doi: 10.1177/00258172241304558. Online ahead of print. PMID: 40145410 The abstract is copied below: Medicine is taught as a science, but in reality, as with other areas that undergo much public scrutiny, it is often more of an art than a science. Particularly when dealing with controversial areas, physicians often attempt to employ the "standard of care" as a guide to practising medicine, and to protect themselves. However, the standard of care itself is often a reactive and temporary construct. A number of practices serve as good examples of accepted patient care that has swung completely from one extreme to another. The history of opiate prescribing in this country exemplifies a complete swing in practice fundamentals among US physicians, where opiates have been repeatedly embraced, and then vilified. Numerous other practices demon...
