Doctors just want to make money and have nothing to do with their patients. **** being a doctor.

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Most people think psychosurgery is not done anymore. Unfortun*ately, this is not true. While psychosurgery was done less frequently in the last three or four decades of the 20th Century, it was never entirely abandoned, and now in the early 21st century psychosurgery is making a comeback.
What is psychosurgery? Elliot S. Valenstein, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Michigan, de*fines psychosurgery as a "brain operation for the pur*pose of alleviating a severe psy*chiat*ric disor*der in the absence of any direct evidence of neuropa*thol*ogy" (Behavior Today, June 28, 1976, p. 5). The following definition appears in a psy*chi*atric textbook: "Psychosurgery is the surgical intervention to sever fibers connecting one part of the brain with another or to remove, destroy, or stim*ulate brain tissue with the intent of modify*ing or alter*ing disturbances of be*havior, thought content, or mood for which no organic pathologi*cal cause can be demon*strated" (John Donnelly, M.D., Sc.D., in: Kaplan & Sad*ock, Compre*hensive Text*book of Psychi*a*try/IV, 1985, p. 1563).
The term psychosurgery is as illogical as many of the other words used in psychia*try. What is illogical about the term psycho*surgery is that the psyche is not a part of the body, and therefore it is com*pletely impossi*ble to do sur*gery on it. Saying a psychia*trist or a surgeon is going to do surgery on some*one's psyche is as illogical as saying he is going to do surgery on the per*son's soul. Al*though psy*cho*surgery is obvi*ously done on the brain, there is good reason for not calling it brain sur*gery, since unlike psycho*sur*gery, brain surgery deals with known abnor*malities in the brain, such as benign or malignant brain tumor, infection, or intracra*nial hemorrhage. What is magical about the word "psy*chosurgery" is somehow it seems to justify psychiatrists or surgeons doing surgery on brains that as far as is known are biologically speaking perfectly healthy! (Thomas Szasz, M.D., The Myth of Psychotherapy, Anchor Press 1978, pp. 6‑7)
Psychosurgery goes by various names for variations on what most people call lo*boto*my. Because the term loboto*my has such stigma attached to it, and because late 20th Century and early 21st Century psychosurgery is at least allegedly less damaging than the psycho*surgeries performed 50 years ago, those who perform or defend psychosurgery today usually use terms other than lobotomy to de*scribe it. Among these terms are subcaudate tractotomy, anterior cingulotomy, limbic leucotomy, anterior capsulotomy, and behavioral surgery. According to Dr. Benjamin Greenberg, professor of psychiatry at Brown University and chief of outpatient services at Butler Hospital in Providence, R.I., "We don't like to call it psychosurgery anymore ... It's neurosurgery for severe psychiatric illness" (quoted in Benedict Carey, "New surgery to control behavior", Los Angeles Times, August 4, 2003, & mindfully.org). In an editorial in 1990 in the Journal of Neuropsychiatry, Stuart Yudofsky, M.D. and Fred Ovsiew, M.D., wrote: "We propose unburdening so-called psycho*surgery from the multifarious limitations of this appellation by advancing a new term: neurosurgical and related interventions (NRI) for psychiatric disorders" (Vol. 2, No. 3, Summer 1990, pp. 253-255, bold print in original). When lobotomy became a pejorative term, it became "psychosurgery". When the harm caused by psychosurgery became widely known, some sought to change the name to behavioral surgery, neurosurgery for psychiatric disorder, NRI, or other terms.
Some critics are unimpressed by the new names. For example, in a letter to the editors of The New York Times, "Lobotomy as Ancestor of Psychosurgery", published December 8, 1991, Graceann V. Inyard, a social worker, expressed her "outrage" about a November 3 article titled "Lingering Effects of Lobotomies of 40's and 50's". She says "The article gives the impression that lobotomies were not performed in this country after the advent of neuroleptic drugs. This is not true. They were just given different names under the umbrella term 'psychosurgery,' stereo*taxis and cingulotomies among them."

The first I recall learn*ing about psy*cho*sur*gery was in an abnor*mal psy*cholo*gy class I took in col*lege when our profes*sor, a psy*chologist, described it in a class lecture. One type he described is drilling two holes in the "patient's" skull on each side of the forehead at about the hair*line to allow access to the frontal lobes of the brain where intellectual mental functioning, thinking, and emotion are be*lieved to take place. In one version, he said, a cylin*drical shaped device that re*sembles an apple corer is in*serted into each side of the brain, and a cylindrical shaped piece of each frontal lobe is removed. He said in other versions of the opera*tion a scalpel is insert*ed to sever connec*tions in the frontal lobes or between the frontal lobes and other parts of the brain. In one type of psychosurgery (transorbital lobotomy), instead of drilling holes in the skull, a scalpel or instrument similar to an ice-pick is poked or hammered through a thin part of the skull in each eye socket known as the orbit into the frontal lobes of the brain, and, our professor said, "the scalpel is moved like this", as he wiggled his finger from side-*to-*side. In his book Mol*ecules of the Mind: The Brave New Science of Molecu*lar Psy*chology, University of Maryland journal*ism professor Jon Franklin de*scribes the same operation as "forcing a thin, ice pick-like instrument through the patient's eye socket and then waving the point around in the brain" (Dell Pub. Co. 1987, p. 64). In their textbook Synop*sis of Psychi*atry, pub*lished in 1988, psychi*atry profes*sors Harold I. Kaplan and Benjamin J. Sadock say the "surgical" instrument used in trans*orbital lobotomy or leukotomy not only is "like" an ice pick; they say it is an ice pick (p. 531). Accord*ing to two supporters of psychosur*gery, the inventor of this method of psycho*surgery was Dr. Walter Freeman, and "His [Dr. Freeman's] initial operating instrument was in fact an ice*pick taken from his kitchen drawer" (Rael Jean Isaac & Vir*ginia C. Armat, Madness in the Streets: How Psychia*try and the Law Abandoned the Mentally Ill, Free Press/Macmillan, Inc. 1990, p. 179). Although my psychology professor didn't use this specific analogy, he made it unmistak*ably clear that he thought such psychosurgeries are as unscien*tific and senseless as trying to repair a malfunctioning tel*e*vision set by drilling a hole in its cabinet, insert*ing a machete, and rattling it around inside the TV cabinet. In other words, these types of psychosurgery, generally known as prefrontal lobotomy, were indiscrimi*nate infliction of damage in the frontal lobes of the brain. The Bantam Medical Dictio*nary says what it calls the "Modern" version of psychosurgery that is done today is more refined and involves making "selective lesions in smaller areas of the brain" ("leukotomy", Bantam Dell 1981, p. 405). University of Iowa psychiatry professor Nancy Andreasen, M.D., Ph.D., describes modern psycho*surgery as follows in her book The Broken Brain: The Biological Revolution in Psychia*try (Harper & Row 1984, *p. 214, italics added):


Whereas the older technique of "pre*frontal lobotomy" involved cutting large amounts of white‑matter tracts, the modern tech*nique of psychosurgery em*pha*sizes the selective cutting of very tiny and quite specific portions of the tracts connect*ing the cingulate gyrus to the remainder of the limbic system. This technique is as*sumed to break up the reverberating cir*cuits of the limbic system and thereby stop the self‑perpet*uating cycle of emotional stim*ulation...

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[little turtle]

I think you can be a doctor and not make money...you will be poor...but you may help discover something that will help others not suffer so much...

little turtle, I could have become one if I weren't crazy myself. "It's doable" unless your parents are truly against you. This thread is more of a 'soar grapes' type of thread.

After all, my doctor didn't help me, why in the **** should I call him my colleague? I am dying here due to family issues, even my neighbors are going crazy, and yet they don't do anything about it. Like ,for god's sake, at least diagnose them and give them appropriate meds. I am the fool for telling them their biazzare ways are wrong.

I am almost eighteen and I cannot even ride a bicycle. I have developmental disorders. I don't know how to behave in public. My doctor just pushes meds and ignores me, telling me white lies it's better for me to continue my education. For all means, **** medicine. Why in the hell should I try to make others lives better when I cannot speak in an understandable manner? What will I achieve? Isn't it just my fault that I care for people I don't know existence of more than money? Shouldn't those healthy kids who live in three-stored house have more of a right to medicine degree than I, because I come from a dysfunctional family?

[Fuzzybear]

“My doctor just pushes meds and ignores me”

I’ve found this too

When is the exam you’re taking?

It is in February. I am hopeless and depressed, but if I have to live, I think I need to really combat the situation, somehow manage to get seat in the government medical college here, and set myself free. Else nothing will be ever right, just as it always has been.