The Icepick Surgeon w/Sam Kean: Yale’s Walter Freeman
Jul 08, 2021•41 min•Season 3Ep. 7
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Episode description
Yale's Walter Freeman was a physician who specialized in lobotomies, and after he developed the transorbital lobotomy, he traveled across the country visiting mental institutions, while also performing lobotomies and spreading his views and methods. Sam Kean joins Sarah and Laura to discuss the case.
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