Fastest Surgeon
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@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. -
Maybe the future doesn't belong to the efficient after all.
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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@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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19 century London operating room
@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.
