"My Lobotomy", award-winning NPR story

[Mercutio]

Audio, text, and pics here. (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5014080)

I heard this yesterday on NPR. Stunning.

One of Freeman's youngest patients is today a 56-year-old bus driver living in California. Over the past two years, Howard Dully has embarked on a quest to discover the story behind the procedure he received as a 12-year-old boy.

[JJM]

Audio, text, and pics here. (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5014080)

I heard this yesterday on NPR. Stunning.Thanks, I don't know how I missed it when it aired.

Shakespeare's sock puppet? I remember Bill from U of New Hampshire 1988-9. I was a temporary professor in the chemistry department and his lab was just across the hall. He's a nice guy.

[Mercutio]

Chem dept? Parsons Hall? I taught there a few times (including those years), in the big lecture halls, but didn't know the people except by sight. Great collections of old chem apparatus, though...wouldn't be surprised to find a lobotomy icepick in there somewhere.

[casebro]

I was gonna write a before and after diary. I got the before done, but afterwards i sorta lost motivation. ;) Now I don't care.

[Mercutio]

I have read Freeman's "Psychosurgery" book. Amazing. Case study after case study...at one point, he basically turns a guy from Hunter S. Thompson into Mr. Rogers.

And calls it a tremendous success.

[JJM]

Chem dept? Parsons Hall? I taught there a few times (including those years), in the big lecture halls, but didn't know the people except by sight. Great collections of old chem apparatus, though...wouldn't be surprised to find a lobotomy icepick in there somewhere.Yes indeed. Parsons Hall, so many fond memories for me. Imagine if you knew Shakes was a grad student at the time. He had a great sense of humor. For example, his picture on display with those of the other students at the department showed him at a typewriter.

For a while, I refused to ask the obvious; but, then he cut an article about people with famous names out of the newspaper and posted it beside his desk. One of the people was a guy named William Shakespeare, who is a descendent of THE William's brother. So, I asked- Bill said "Yeah, that's my dad."

[Diogenes]

Freeman was convinced that his 10-minute lobotomy was destined to revolutionize medicine. He spent the rest of his life trying to prove his point.



Gotta love the pun... Heh, Heh ..:D