By the twentieth century medical science had advanced to a point where unscrupulous individuals could cause irreversible damage to patients without actually killing them. And then they could call their procedures “successes.” And people were not vigilant enough, or not sufficiently aware, to say, “No, that is not what success means.” What happens when a “cure” causes more harm than good? Which brings us to lobotomies, the scariest procedure that you never want performed. This is a plague induced by human stupidity, not disease, but I couldn’t write a book on deadly medical horrors without
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