Friday, September 24, 2010

Walter Freeman

I believe that Walter is not a mad man but not a good doctor either. I think some of the things he was doing was wrong but for his time he was just trying to be helpful to people. There were no right ways set in stone so he was just trying to help people to the best of his ability. He was not a good doctor though because what he was going actually was not helping his patients in the long run at all. I find the procedure to be inhuman however at the time right away he was getting good results. So if you were getting good results why would you stop if you truly thought you were helping people. So in all honestly I believe he was neither a good doctor or a man mad. This procedure does not even seem medical to me. It seems like hes just messing with your brain in hope of good results. So these lobotomies never had medical evidence to back up what they were doing. I just think Walter got caught up in the quick results not the long term results. So he was not a mad man but certainly not a good doctor by any means. 
The Lobotomist- This was all about the procedures doctors performed to try and cure mentally insane people. Walter felt like he was really helping people whether that was really true or not is totally opinionated.

1 comment:

  1. Interesting! It is hard to pick a side in this case. You summarize it well.

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