Did They Really Do Lobotomies?
Did They Really Do Lobotomies? Did they really do lobotomies? Over the years, lobotomies were done on about 40,000 to 50,000 people in the United States in mental institutions and hospitals, El-Hai says. About 10,000 of those procedures were transorbital or “ice pick” lobotomies, as Freeman himself referred to the procedure. Are lobotomies still perform