Bro was awarded a Nobel Prize in Medicine for this (not joking)
@TrevorGoodchild one of Portugal's greatest glories
@BrazilianContrarian Moniz also developed cerebral angiography so he deserved the prize regardless 
@TrevorGoodchild i had a teacher who was a portuguese born in colonial angola, pretty resentful leftoid, often mocked his country and moniz for lobotomy, never mentioned that other thing smh
@BrazilianContrarian Angiography is one of the most important and revolutionary medical developments in the last century and a half. Moniz is the reason we can avoid doing open craniotomies for the majority of intracerebral aneurysms nowadays, to say nothing of how it changed cardiac and vascular surgery for the better
@TrevorGoodchild @BrazilianContrarian Not to stray from the topic but I remember reading a story in the LA Times a long while back about a guy over in Holland who committed suicide with a drill. He put 19 holes in his head...
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@LudditeMan @BrazilianContrarian @TrevorGoodchild maybe he was just trying to be like one of those monk dudes who drill into their head and nothing happens
