We see them in little cots, connected to ventilators, tubes in place to administer drugs as they struggle to grow. Parents watch their baby from behind glass walls feeling helpless.
The Supreme Court of Victoria delivered a landmark ruling late last year that a state tribunal had violated two patients’ human rights when it forced them to undergo electroconvulsive
There’s no doubt it’s divisive: at one end of the spectrum are GPs who label it all ‘bunk’; at the other are the GPs trying to integrate it in their clinical practice.