The outlawed lobotomy. What is is when they push a hot poker into your brain?
I’ll bet everyone involved except the patient believes in hope, change and socialism.
No, they didn't. It is still legal to do lobotomies in the United States. It isn't done often, and the techniques have changed, but it is still done. Russia did outlaw lobotomies back there somewhere, iirc.
Lobotomy's Back: In 1949 lobotomy was hailed as a medical miracle. But images of zombielike patients and surgeons with ice picks soon put an end to the practice. Now, however, the practitioners have refined their tools. Discover Magazine, October, 1997 (^).