Article first published as Review: My Lobotomy by Howard Dully on Technorati. It’s hard to read about the good old days of mental health care where chopping up a person’s brain was considered a good idea. Howard Dully’s lobotomy was a transorbital lobotomy, where what amounted to an ice pick was pushed into the brain’s frontal lobes and swished around a bit. It was a very fast and simple procedure that only had a couple of problems-1) it killed as many people as it helped, and 2) it didn’t really help that many people. The NPR radio program is a…