The lobotomy. I did my residency with a man who pioneered the procedure, but I avoided performing any of them. To physically affect the patient to such a degree with an operation just as likely to leave them incapacitated as it is to be a cure? Unthinkable to me, even then.
I suppose it's shocking enough in retrospect, but I did have something like an ethical code then. Even if I hid it on a day to day basis.
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The lobotomy. I did my residency with a man who pioneered the procedure, but I avoided performing any of them. To physically affect the patient to such a degree with an operation just as likely to leave them incapacitated as it is to be a cure? Unthinkable to me, even then.
I suppose it's shocking enough in retrospect, but I did have something like an ethical code then. Even if I hid it on a day to day basis.