Peggy S. Salters, from South Carolina, in 2005 became the first recipient of electroconvulsive therapy in the United States to win a jury verdict and a large money judgment ($635,177) in compensation for extensive permanent amnesia and cognitive disability caused by the procedure.[1]

Salters had received outpatient ECT treatment in 2000 (13 shocks in 19 days), and reported losing all her memories of the past 30 years as a result, including all memories of her deceased husband.

She once worked as a psychiatric nurse.

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  1. ↑ "People Who, untitled article". Archived from the original on 1 March 2015. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
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