Blog #3-The Lobotomist

I think Walter Freeman wants to help others who have mental problems but the way he goes about dealing with their problems is crazy. He wants to make a mark in history but he doesnt know how. All he cares about is fame not his patients. Freeman was able to do what he wanted with the patient without a consent form. He believed the thalamus was responsible for mental conditions therefore if he removed a part of the thalamus he thought they would be cured but they were only cured for a short amount of time. The patient become a totally different person and Freeman believed that was alright. I truely believe Freeman is a mad man. He didnt care that other doctors criticized his work he just kept doing the surgeries. What he did to those patients was disgusting and it didnt help them, it made them disabled. It surprises me that all these people went through with the surgery even though they knew the side effects. The patients were worse after the labotomy opposed to before the surgery.