Some lobotomy patients were able to leave home and go to work, but never at the level of performance seen before the operation. Professors waited on tables. Cashiers couldn’t keep numbers straight. Saleswomen could no longer give correct change. Musicians could still play, but their music had become mechanical and heartless. Most of those who tried to go back to work were fired.
This is heartbreaking. And yet the lobotomies went on.
