This is an application by the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, and the associate director of Bellevue Hospital, for an order authorizing the psychiatric staff of Bellevue Hospital to administer electroshock therapy to a patient, Paula Stein, the respondent herein. Mrs. Stein has objected to this treatment, and refuses to give her consent to it.
This court, on July 11, 1972, after a hearing conducted at Bellevue...
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