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3:23pm July 14, 2014

Gah, the more I read about Walter Freeman…

…the more I find eerie similarities to Kevorkian.  They both didn’t actually care at all about their patients (but pretended to), they were both huge on showmanship, this Freeman guy actually set up a car he called the Lobotomobile, they were both obsessive about documenting things they were doing to the point where it interfered with their medical skills (Freeman killed at least one patient by stopping to take photos during a lobotomy), they both courted the press and sought as much attention as they could, and they both pretended to be doing people a favor while actually fucking up their lives at best and killing them at worst.  And the public loved both of them because they were charismatic and really good at acting like champions of the oppressed when they really had their own much more twisted and sadistic agendas.

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  1. ooksaidthelibrarian reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone
  2. feliscorvus said: (and by “good book” I mean…really revealing about a seriously horrible situation and interesting from a local-history standpoint, as the author describes what it was like at Agnew’s, etc.)
  3. feliscorvus said: If you haven’t already read it, “My Lobotomy” is actually a very good book on the subject. The guy who wrote it (Howard Dully) actually HAD a lobotomy. And grew up in the Bay Area in a lot of places familiar to me.
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