Fastest Surgeon
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wrote on 21 Oct 2021, 00:31 last edited by
There's a story about this at The Atlantic, but ... paywall.
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wrote on 21 Oct 2021, 01:16 last edited by
What a great story.
I'm not even going to try to find out if it is true, the story is too good.
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wrote on 21 Oct 2021, 10:43 last edited by
@copper https://allthatsinteresting.com/robert-liston
Robert Liston was performing a leg amputation on a patient who was lying flat on his table. As he brought down his knife, he was so focused on his speed that he took his surgical assistant’s fingers off along with the patient’s leg. As he swung the knife back up, it clipped a spectator’s coattails, and he collapsed, dead.
The patient and Liston’s assistant both died after their wounds became infected, and the spectator who collapsed was later discovered to have died of fright. The three death’s made Liston’s surgery the only one on record with a 300 percent mortality rate.But wait! There's more!
While amputating another patient’s leg, he broke his personal record by finishing the surgery in two and a half minutes. However, in the interest of speed, he got a little too excited and chopped off the patient’s testicles along with his leg.
He also once mistook a lump in a young boy’s neck for a skin tag and removed it suddenly at the boys home. The lump turned out to be an aneurysm of his carotid artery, and the boy died.
Years later, when anesthesia was invented, Liston became the first surgeon to operate using it, and his surgery was a success.
Despite his downfalls, Robert Liston remained a distinguished surgeon. After his death, his peers erected a marble statue in his honor and created an award for students of distinction in his name. -
wrote on 21 Oct 2021, 14:39 last edited by
Maybe the future doesn't belong to the efficient after all.
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wrote on 21 Oct 2021, 15:01 last edited by
@mik said in Fastest Surgeon:
Maybe the future doesn't belong to the efficient after all.
Depends on whether your define efficiency with "usable output" or merely "output" in the numerator.
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wrote on 21 Oct 2021, 15:17 last edited by
@mik said in Fastest Surgeon:
Maybe the future doesn't belong to the efficient after all.
Listen, young Doctor Fauci was trying his best!
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wrote on 21 Oct 2021, 16:28 last edited by
1847, just in time for the civil war.
I bet Dr. Liston was in demand.
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wrote on 21 Oct 2021, 17:01 last edited by
@copper said in Fastest Surgeon:
1847, just in time for the civil war.
I bet Dr. Liston was in demand.
He died in 1847.
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wrote on 25 Oct 2021, 03:11 last edited by
19 century London operating room
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19 century London operating room
wrote on 25 Oct 2021, 11:41 last edited by@taiwan_girl when I was a student and resident, the operating rooms had viewing galleries. Nothing like in the photo you posted, and they were behind glass, and, therefore, safe for the patient.
When we opened the "new" building in 1980, the heart surgeons wanted galleries in their rooms again. So, they were built. They were also never used. The seats became just another horizontal surface upon which to store shit.
I never understood the point - can't see anything anyway, especially in heart surgery.
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@taiwan_girl when I was a student and resident, the operating rooms had viewing galleries. Nothing like in the photo you posted, and they were behind glass, and, therefore, safe for the patient.
When we opened the "new" building in 1980, the heart surgeons wanted galleries in their rooms again. So, they were built. They were also never used. The seats became just another horizontal surface upon which to store shit.
I never understood the point - can't see anything anyway, especially in heart surgery.
wrote on 25 Oct 2021, 13:17 last edited by@george-k said in Fastest Surgeon:
I never understood the point - can't see anything anyway, especially in heart surgery.
The first row of seats at Fenway Park have a TV screen at each seat.
Maybe the operating room gallery needs TV screens.