September 17th, "World Patient Safety Day" is nestled powerfully into "Rehabilitation Week" (September 13-20, 2020). The best way to honor both is by listening to stories of injured patients whose doctors chose to disregard safety in the pursuit of treatment and then abandoned them without access to rehabilitation.

Jane Rice, author of the YouTube Channel "Life After ECT," publishes a new (20 Minute) podcast in which she discusses the importance of paying more attention to ECT's "Adverse Events" than the positive outcomes in an effort to learn from negative outcomes, improving treatment for everyone. She discusses Ernest Hemingway's experience with ECT and her own. She also highlights barriers to accessing brain injury rehabilitation and how access to rehabilitation impacted her recovery.

This podcast acts as a voice for ECT recepients with severe negative outcomes calling on the World to Prioitize Patient Safety during Rehabilitation week. A huge shout out to Jane for the obvious effort it takes to learn new skills after ECT while living with its after effects.

If the experiences Jane shares of Hemingway, her personal journey and experiences of others injured by treatment desperate for access to Brain Injury assessment and rehabilitation moves you, please sign this international petition to audit ECT and provide rehabilitation to injured patients. Medicine and Society never demanded ECT be safety tested using modern clinical parameters to establish standardized dosing practices, the least they can do is break down these barriers to patient safety and provide comprehensive brain injury assessment (measuring whether each patient has any of the "severe effects" listed in the Thymatron User Manual) for every ECT recepient and rehabilitation as indicated by assessment. 

Thank you in advance for signing and sharing this petition. Injured patients desperate to Access rehabilitation after brain injury depend on you.