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lobotomy blues

by Rob Friesel

Via Boing Boing: the tale of Howard Dully, a California man who makes his living as a bus driver who had a transorbital lobotomy at age 12 in 1966. He describes how he’s always felt like he’s been missing something. And maybe he has.

Kind of a gut-wrenching tale. And makes you think about what we do and how we do it — what we know (and don’t know) about the treatments we ply. (Just think about the side-effect profiles of the most commonly prescribed anti-psychotics…)

currently playing: Cardinal “Bodyslide”

About Rob Friesel

Software engineer by day. Science fiction writer by night. Weekend homebrewer, beer educator at Black Flannel, and Certified Cicerone. Author of The PhantomJS Cookbook and a short story in Please Do Not Remove. View all posts by Rob Friesel →

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