Lobotomy: The Ice Pick, the Nobel Prize, and the Doctor Who Wouldn't Stop
A doctor with an ice pick, a Nobel Prize, and thousands of altered lives. In this episode, we explore the desperate conditions that made lobotomy seem like a miracle, the doctors who championed it, and how Walter Freeman turned a radical brain surgery into one of the most infamous treatments in psychiatric history.
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