My Lobotomy: Howard Dully's Journey (2005)

Re:My Lobotomy: Howard Dully's Journey (2005) by CafeRacer on Saturday September 30, 2023 @06:04AM (#37714052)

Technically, if you think about that, we're doing neurosurgeries to remove parts of the brains when necessary. I could imagine that severing the connection between lobes could affect someone's mental state in a positive way.

However, 2500 surgeries, some of them with great results, some of them resulted in deaths and many in between. It's a game of chances, not a science. Seems like this dude did not understand what is it exactly he is doing and randomly poked holes in people hoping it would work.

It would have been interesting to read a journal of someone who had the procedure.

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Re:My Lobotomy: Howard Dully's Journey (2005) by belk on Saturday September 30, 2023 @06:28AM (#37714151)

I think the only think he knew was that he was offering a procedure to turn problematic family members into vegetables, that was the whole business model

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Re:My Lobotomy: Howard Dully's Journey (2005) by Mistletoe on Saturday September 30, 2023 @06:16AM (#37714106)

I’m reminded of this article. There are very rarely placebo surgeries done, so it is an entire arm of medicine that is running wild without proper controls being done.

https://www.skepdoc.info/ian-harris-on-surgery-the-ultimate-...

If you’ve had a lobotomy surgery, you have a huge tendency to believe it maybe did something positive. An interesting study would have been just tell people that they had a lobotomy. If I had to guess, I bet the success rate would be much higher that actual lobotomy.

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Re:My Lobotomy: Howard Dully's Journey (2005) by jprete on Saturday September 30, 2023 @06:47AM (#37714219)

You’re writing as though lobotomy is a legitimate procedure that might be a placebo, instead of a nonsensical operation of random brain destruction.

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