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Patients unwillingly treated with electroshock at Norwegian mental hospitals – media — RT News
At least forty patients in mental hospitals around Norway have been given electroshock treatment without their consent and despite objections from the country’s Civil Ombudsman, a local media investigation has claimed.
Source: Patients unwillingly treated with electroshock at Norwegian mental hospitals – media — RT News
Former battered baby is allowed a second ACC appeal | Stuff.co.nz
A woman is seeking ACC for the mental effects of having been a battered baby.
Source: Former battered baby is allowed a second ACC appeal | Stuff.co.nz
From a victim of ECT | O’Shaughnessy’s
Using surgical mesh for hernias ‘safe and effective’, surgeon says | Stuff.co.nz
Surgeon says public debate about surgical mesh has frightened away patients who would benefit from it.
Source: Using surgical mesh for hernias ‘safe and effective’, surgeon says | Stuff.co.nz
Bogus case managers demeaning, ACC claimants say | Stuff.co.nz
Blenheim man Peter Firmin is one of 212 ACC claimants assigned a case manager with a bogus name.
Source: Bogus case managers demeaning, ACC claimants say | Stuff.co.nz
Electroshock survivor: shock therapy put me in a wheelchair, robbed me of my teaching career and destroyed my life
Teaching at the Texas School for the Deaf brought electroshock survivor Evelyn Scogin, 59, joy and a sense of purpose in life. However, her love for working with disabled children was abruptly […]
Aftermath of Memory Loss | Sheri Lawrence de Grom
Traumatic Brain Injuries – Part 4 of 5 In The Name of Modern Medicine, cont. The days passed without Tom recognizing me and the staff treated me like the enemy. Had someone warned them, “Do not app…
Is ACC ‘passing the buck’ with prediction based evaluations?
Otago University researchers are warning that a computer-based risk prediction model to profile and target ACC clients may be compromising the agency ‘s ability to make fair and humane decisions about the treatment of New Zealanders in need. ACC says the system, known as the “survival analysis model” has been used for three years and was designed to process claims more efficiently. Alistair Knott is from the University’s Artificial Intelligence and Law in New Zealand project. He wants ACC to provide a public account of how it uses its predictive tool to make sure it isn’t ‘passing the buck’ to a machine.
Source: Is ACC ‘passing the buck’ with prediction based evaluations?
National Portrait: Sonja Cooper, human rights lawyer | Stuff.co.nz
They said justice for state abuse victims wasn’t possible under the law. Sonja Cooper proved them wrong.
Source: National Portrait: Sonja Cooper, human rights lawyer | Stuff.co.nz
