The horrible sadistic shit doctors got away with. Plain torture under the disguise of a medical intervention for what we today recognize as PTSD.<p><i>Suspicion of malingering had a perverse impact on treatment methods because many doctors believed that these soldiers should receive aggressive treatment. A vast field of medical experimentation using coercive psychotherapy techniques then developed in order to find a cure for these soldiers and to send them back to the battlefield as quickly as possible. A medical–military collusion ensued.</i><p>Another example are the unfathomable acts performed by doctors in the Third Reich [1].<p>I'm appalled that there are always corrupt bootlicking physicians in our ranks. To this f'ing day[2]!<p>[1]<a href="https://ahrp.org/1932-1945-doctors-academics-perverted-medicine-science-in-nazi-germany/" rel="nofollow">https://ahrp.org/1932-1945-doctors-academics-perverted-medic...</a><p>[2]<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/27/us/politics/cia-black-site-doctors.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/27/us/politics/cia-black-sit...</a>
> At first, faradization was carried out using virtually pain-free currents so that the soldiers would relate the painless nature of the treatment to their comrades. However, Roussy recommended the use of more intense faradization in difficult cases. To begin with, electrodes were placed on the targeted areas and then, if necessary, on more sensitive areas such as the soles of the feet or the scrotum. It was sometimes necessary to incorporate certain complementary measures like disciplinary isolation or a milk diet.
Title: The “torpillage” neurologists of World War I<p>Subtitle: Electric therapy to send hysterics back to the front<p>The current HN title doesn’t make any sense, dang can we get an update (maybe to just the Title)?