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Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast

ECT Efficacy and Controversies with Dr. Cummings

Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast

David J Puder

Science, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the podcast, we sit down with Dr. Cummings to discuss the benefits, progress, and fears related to electroconvulsive therapy. For years the efficacy of electroconvulsive therapy has been debated, but we’ve learned that it still remains an essential part of psychiatric treatment in patients with severe mental health disorders.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Psychiatry and Psychothermic Podcast.

0:12.2

I'm here to talk about getting rid of burnout, increasing job satisfaction, and feeling

0:16.6

like an expert in what you do.

0:18.6

One thing that created a lot of burnout and angst for me was trying to get continued

0:21.7

medical education right at the last minute.

0:24.2

So why not join the CME membership and do CME while listening to this podcast?

0:28.6

Go to psychiatrypodcast.com, sign up, sign in, take the test, and the certification

0:32.6

is emailed to you in seconds.

0:35.7

Dr. Cummings and Dr. Peter have no conflicts of interest to announce.

0:39.8

Let's start the show.

0:40.8

All right, welcome back to the podcast.

0:42.7

I am joined today with Dr. Michael Cummings.

0:45.1

He is a regular on this podcast.

0:47.4

He is an expert, psychopharmacologist, and I was talking to about ECT.

0:54.0

We were sending some emails back, and I sent him this article that was recently

0:58.6

written by the independent, called Thousands of Women Given Dangerous, Electric Shocks

1:04.5

as Mental Health Treatment in England.

1:07.9

This study talked about how ECT and placebo are the same, and there's horrible side effects,

1:16.8

and they give an example of someone who had severe memory issues, and then this article

1:24.1

quotes another article by John Reed, who has written critically about ECT, and I was

1:34.1

reading this article actually, and I sent it to Dr. Cummings, and Dr. Cummings was like,

1:39.1

oh, I've actually written a counter to that article, and he sent that to me.

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