I’m not sure if you’re the podcast type.. but Maximum Fun network has one that I think you would totally love called “Sawbones”. It a husband comedian and his doctor wife discussing medical history. They’re both funny and informative. It’s awesome!

Same here. No problem with a 9 year old getting home at 240pm and parents not showing up until late at night. Kid in a car? Forget it. Against the law. Running without a licensed driver parked near the entrance to a quik trip with the doors locked and the A/C or heat on? Also illegal.

Freeman was the inventor of the “ice pick lobotomy,” where a tool is inserted through the tear-duct, destroying the prefrontal cortex of a patient’s brain by scraping or cutting most of the connections away, ostensibly to cure the patient of mental illness. Dr. Freeman, a white man, performed between 150 to over 200…

“...When I visited, it had just snowed.

Since my grandma was a contemporary of Rose Kennedy and very interested in her treatment, I’ve always been aware of his practices. Traveling around to spread the gospel of lobotomies doesn’t answer why he couldn’t set up shop at a John Hopkins type facility. I think he’d be more effective with a well regarded research…

Which is funny because in my state there is no law on age to stay home alone after school. So 9yr old in a car where im within a few hundred feet and controls in place is illegal vs him home alone for hours until I get home from work. Gotta lover merica. I know which i would do and its not the house!

or just…being a kid, apparently: My Lobotomy

This article is why I love Jezebel. Also, can you imagine if they made this into a movie? Whoopi and Loretta Divine nurses, Laurence Fishburne as the superintendent, and the ever versatile Jon Hamm as the crazy evil Walter Freeman.

Zero tolerance? Zero? For any child?

Call 911, or bust out a window...

It is a valid worry, there is way more likelyhood of someone calling 911 than any other hypothetical danger out there

I think Freeman’s presence is more like the early gynecological experiments done on American slave women. You need to understand that before scientific testing on animals became widespread, the test subjects were unwilling or uninformed black citizens of the United States.

I was born & raised in Egypt, only moved to the US when I was 25, and I'm happy to hear that I'm not the only one who sees the issue as overblown. Growing up, I was left in the car for anywhere between 5 - 20 mins, and I turned out just fine. This was in Cairo, a city bustling with people, not the suburbs or a quiet…

I alluded to this in my post, but “I survived” is a poor argument, but “I survived and learned how to do it correctly” can be a great argument.

I never knew what a colossal ass-pain having an infant could be. If I need to run to the grocery store, I'll usually leave the kid at home, but if my wife needs to get something done around the house, she'll tell me to take him, since, as a crawler, he requires no less than 150% of your attention to make sure he…

Wonderfully written article, Alison. I love pieces like this that shine a light on a matter that most of us have never heard of.

I’ve got (and had on all my past cars for about 9 years now) a 2 way remote start, works almost a mile away. If and or when I leave my 8-9 year old for just a few minutes (if he’s in the middle of a book etc) I remote start car, leave AC controls comfortable, exit car and lock car. If anyone breaks into the car the…

When I was a kid, I refused to set foot inside a Wal-Mart. So every time my folks went, I’d wait in the car. In Texas. Which was still preferable to being inside a Wal-Mart. I never died, and if it got too hot, I could always just open the door.

Chilling and haunting. These stories are fascinating. Also, who the hell thought it was a good idea to stick an ice pick in someone's eye and call it medicine?!