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UNTIL JUST RECENTLY, psychosurgery was not confined to the so-called criminally insane. One of the pioneers in the field, Harvard neurosurgeon Dr. Vernon H. Mark, has performed surgery only in cases where violent behavior is usually incidental, primarily in instances like epilepsy...
More than 24 hours after the shooting started, the gunmen decided to release a third hostage in return for some medical attention. The black neurosurgeon who agreed to go inside, Dr. Thomas Matthew, reported later that he had treated one man, "No. 4," for a stomach wound. The others, he said, appeared to be in no hurry to surrender -particularly since the police had relented and delivered boxes of food to the door. "I think they plan to take up residence in there," the doctor said...
This knowledge led to a whole series of new operations. Dr. Glenn Meyer, a University of Texas neurosurgeon, reports good results with a process called cingulotomy. Boring holes in the skull, he uses an electric current to cauterize and destroy bundles of nerve cells that connect various parts of the limbic lobe, or feeling brain. Performed on 59 patients, some of them schizophrenics or chronic alcoholics, the operation has produced a vast improvement in half, slight improvement in a fourth and no detectable change in the others...
Standing Up. Anesthesiologist Barbara Lipton encountered a typical response while interning at Yale-New Haven Hospital. She held retractors for a neurosurgeon during a particularly long operation. The surgeon, duly impressed with her perseverance, sent her a Christmas greeting: "To one of the boys." Says Pediatrician-Hematologist Darleen Powars: "There are hundreds of ways to discourage woman surgeons. There's no place for a woman resident to sleep. And if you want to urinate some other way than standing up, you have a problem...
...article in the Crimson for Saturday, 20 November 1971, entitled "Neurosurgeons Point Out Dangers In Harvard Football's Offensive Play", the author, Samuel Z. Goldhaber stated that Dr. Francis Rockett, neurosurgeon, Dr. Salvatore Mangano and I were critical of Coach Restic and his staff for teaching "spearing...