Wife in for serious female surgery last Friday. As we are in the pre op room discussing what to expect post op, the doctor tells my wife to expect meaningful pain... to which I reply, "pain don't hurt", and chuckled a little to myself.
The confused look on the doctor's face was priceless
Eric, the following could be viewed as the apex of insensitive........
What was the most unsuccessful surgery?
In 1800, a surgery took place with a 300% mortality rate.
It seems incredible, but during that operation Robert Liston, a surgeon famous for the speed with which he carried out his operations (remember that at the time there was no anesthesia, so speed was absolutely functional to the patient's survival) killed three people.
The operation consisted of an amputation, an action that Liston carried out in just 2 and a half minutes, but during the cutting the patient began to struggle, forcing the doctor to try to cut in poor safety conditions. So it was that Liston cut off some of the fingers of one of his assistants and the coat of a spectator.
The spectator died of fright, believing he had been injured, while the patient and the assistant died a few days later from gangrene from the wounds.