Its the year 2040

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>The procedure was controversial from its inception. It was prescribed for psychiatric (and occasionally other) conditions as a mainstream procedure in some Western countries for more than two decades. This was despite general recognition of frequent and serious side effects. While some patients experienced symptomatic improvement with the operation, the improvements were achieved at the cost of creating other impairments. The balance between benefits and risks contributed to the controversial nature of the procedure. The originator of the procedure, Portuguese António Egas Moniz, shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine of 1949 for the "discovery of the therapeutic value of in certain psychoses",[n 1] although the awarding of the prize has been subject to controversy.[3]

>The use of the procedure increased dramatically from the early s and into the s; by , almost 20,000 had been performed in the United States alone. Following the introduction of antipsychotic medications in the mid- s, were quickly and almost completely abandoned.

If you were living in the year 2040, what would your first thoughts be about this passage? What first comes to mind when reading this? The answer is not
>Portuguese
>we wuz doctuhs
So please dont post that.