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I wanted to post this for you guys 12 yr gets lobotomy upon stepmothers request

Sotired345's picture

Sotired345's picture

The words monster and horrible person are very loosely thrown around by people who have no idea who real monsters are. 

fourbrats's picture

medical history :(. The Rose Kennedy story is particularly awful because her dad had it done because he couldn't handle imperfections. And her sister turned that tragedy into an organization my husband and I are very involved in (The Special Olympics). 

Freeman's kids sound disturbed. The entire story sounds disturbing but cheerfully talking about the ice picks that were used to mutilate other people is sickening. 

Sotired345's picture

He was kind of loon. I saw the documentary and it said mid procedure he stopped to take a picture the ice pick slipped and killed the patient. Not sure why it was allowed for as long as it was.

icanteven's picture

Wow. That was difficult to read. I dislike my stepson a lot, and often joke about sending him off to live on the moon, but I would never do this. I actually don't think I know anyone who would think this is ok, even on the worst behaved child we ever met. No, we are not monsters. We are just people.

Sotired345's picture

Lol the moon. It’s joking though I know some people who say that about their own kids. But yes a simple roll of the eye or getting annoyed at a stepchild and we are horrible human beings. Honestly I know that none of us has ever laid a hand on our stepchild I don’t even raise my voice to mine. But yes we’re the monsters. 

Rags's picture

They call it the art of medicince. Not the science of medicine.

Leaching, bleeding, labotomy, etc...

The procedure, though its use was naive, had some perceived legitimacy when it was first researched and developed. The evil Docs that exploited their patients and the procedure, are shit.

Even if their kids are defending them out of some naive commitment to their own self delusion.

If I were the subject of the article, I would go after every penny that monster ever earned during his lifetime without any concern for his progeny.

Too many people defer to their Doctors instead of recognizing that their Doctors work for them.  

I have fired a number of them over the course of my 43+ year life as a T-1 diabetic.  Of all of my Endocrinologists, only two of them are what I would consider effective.  The others, and there have been many, were hacks who did what they always have done rather than engaging with me to partner in managing my disease.  The two good ones, are partners.

No doubt when this article occurred and before than when labotomy was a prominant procedure, there was little partnership between Docs and patients.

Good thing that does not still have to be the case.

Fire them and find one of quality.