<P> Like many new medical treatments for diseases previously considered incurable , depictions of insulin shock therapy in the media were initially favorable . In the 1940 film Dr. Kildare 's Strange Case , young Kildare uses the new `` insulin shock cure for schizophrenia '' to bring a man back from insanity to prove that the surgeon who removed a brain tumor from the patient was n't at fault for the patient 's condition . The film dramatically shows a five - hour treatment that ends with a patient eating jelly sandwiches and reconnecting with his wife . Other films of the era began to show a more sinister approach , beginning with the 1946 film Shock , in which actor Vincent Price plays a doctor who plots to murder a patient using an overdose of insulin in order to keep the fact that he was a murderer the secret . More recent films include Frances ( 1982 ) in which actress Frances Farmer undergoes insulin shock treatment , and A Beautiful Mind , which depicted genius John Nash undergoing insulin treatment . In an episode of the medical drama House_M. D. , Dr. House puts himself in an insulin shock to try to make his hallucinations disappear . </P>
<P> Like many new medical treatments for diseases previously considered incurable , depictions of insulin shock therapy in the media were initially favorable . In the 1940 film Dr. Kildare 's Strange Case , young Kildare uses the new `` insulin shock cure for schizophrenia '' to bring a man back from insanity to prove that the surgeon who removed a brain tumor from the patient was n't at fault for the patient 's condition . The film dramatically shows a five - hour treatment that ends with a patient eating jelly sandwiches and reconnecting with his wife . Other films of the era began to show a more sinister approach , beginning with the 1946 film Shock , in which actor Vincent Price plays a doctor who plots to murder a patient using an overdose of insulin in order to keep the fact that he was a murderer the secret . More recent films include Frances ( 1982 ) in which actress Frances Farmer undergoes insulin shock treatment , and A Beautiful Mind , which depicted genius John Nash undergoing insulin treatment . In an episode of the medical drama House_M. D. , Dr. House puts himself in an insulin shock to try to make his hallucinations disappear . </P>
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