Dr. Walter Freeman told her to wait; he just needed a few minutes with the patient. The young nurse had no idea that the doctor was the famous — some would say infamous — lobotomist who traveled around the country using an ice pick or similar tool to damage the brains of thousands of patients.

“She said she did not know she was going to take that man for a lobotomy,” Lamb says. “That bothered her for the rest of her life.

“She brought back the perfect patient. He would feed himself, dress himself [and] go to the bathroom by himself, but he would never have any emotions again.”

Lamb concludes the chilling tale noting that as late as 1980 there were still lobotomized patients on the wards at Weston.”