Douglas Todd: My father's shock therapy contains cautions for today

The Riverview Hospital “ward notes” about my father’s shock therapy read largely without expression, which, not without coincidence, is how my father came to be.
“Record of coma insulin treatment: 166 hours, 5 minutes on treatment. 29 hours, 15 minutes in coma. 27 comas,” says a ward note dated June 16, 1954, less than a week after he was involuntarily admitted to the mental hospital. “7 grand mal seizures.”
There is no record my father, Harold Todd