Jack El-Hai on "The Lobotomist"

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Jack El-Hai is the author of “The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness.”  El-Hai tells Steve Paulson about Walter Freeman, the man who invented and promoted the surgical technique called the lobotomy. El-Hai explains why Freeman believed this brain mutilating procedure was a good trade-off for some patients.