Published on
May 29, 2025
When Canada’s Most Famous Brain Surgeon Almost Killed His Own Sister
O pening the skull had never seemed more difficult to Wilder Penfield than it did on that cold December morning in Montreal. Staring at his sister’s shining white scalp, shaved for surgery on the heavy German-made operating table, he felt weak. It was 1928 …
Source:
The Walrus
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Left-wing
