lobotomist

English

Etymology

From lobotomy +‎ -ist.

Noun

lobotomist (plural lobotomists)

1. (rare) Someone who performs lobotomies.
   • 1988 December 2, Timothy Beneke, “The Case Against Therapy”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     I can imagine a lobotomist saying, "Do you want your daughter dead or lobotomized?"

   • 2010, Mary de Young, Madness: An American History of Mental Illness and Its Treatment‎^[2], page 232:

     Freeman's career as a lobotomist was fairing as badly in the eye of the medical profession as the procedure was.