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Howard Dully's My Lobotomy

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What is a Lobotomy? A Lobotomy is a procedure that was popular in the 1900’s on mentally ill people. In this procedure, doctors would put two ice picks through their patient’s eye sockets in order to puncture the frontal lobe of the brain. They did this in hope of eliminating certain emotions they deemed unnecessary. In the short story, My Lobotomy, Howard Dully tells about his experience of getting a Lobotomy. Based off of his experiences, I would strongly disagree with this procedure. Howard’s step mom met with 6 physicalist to find out what was wrong with him. All 6 say nothing is wrong so Lou finds Dr. Freeman and he’s willing to listen. He to claims Howard is a normal 11 year old. So Lou makes violence stories up which makes Dr. Freeman
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