I loved watching House and looking up anything medical on the Internet, and saw an episode where House had been shot, he requested Ketamine, and later he is jogging like there was no tomorrow. When I looked up Ketamine, I read about the history of this medicine from animal anesthetic (except bovines), to an anesthetic used hald the time in the Vietnam War, to treating cancer patients for pain...and depression.

Then it talked about how no large scale studies were done, although they had been planned, because ketamine became widely used as a "rave party drug" and even a date rape drug. I lost interest until months later I was told that a single injection of Ketamine (S) has been shown to eliminate depression for six months or longer in a third of patients, and three months or longer in over half the patients.

As with any medication, I would want to talk to my psychiatrist. But if there are websites that actually support this argument of a long term fix on depression, it might help in gaining his curiousity if he doesn't know the answer already. Has anyone heard if this is true or a bunch of hooey?