Did you know that electroshock therapy is still a common practice? It's true that electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) nearly died out after Jack Nicholson's performance in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and the major influx of psychotropic drugs beginning around the '60s. But just as ECT was going extinct its use picked up in the '90s and continued to grow exponentially. As of 1998, the ECT treatments numbered 100,000, approximately twice the number of tonsillectomies that year, and continues at that rate.
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