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I sincerely hope everyone got to watch this segment of American Experience last night about Dr. Walter Freeman. The description of some of the patients' symptoms were very interesting; most resided in the northeastern U.S. & Upper Midwest....(Only for convenience sake?) And the West Virginia "lobotomy playground".
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Didn't get to watch last night but wow, that stuff is beyond creepy to me.
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Oh Topaz, it was so very telling about egos, good-old-boys-club and our medical system! Freeman's Dad was President of the AMA when he was practicing and sonny-boy, Walter, always wanted to out-do his Dad in a big way...Twisted and Disgusting!
Also talked about how in those days, write-ups weren't submitted for peer review and how docs never complained openly about the activities of others (& still don't), as it was considered "unethical". (This is the guy to lobotomized Rosemary Kennedy!)
It was awful and so completely human, I'm sorry to say.
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