Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.
Comment preview: Eye surgeon here, very different from general surgeon. We don't kill people, but it's really easy to screw an eye, decreasing permanently it's vision. Happens to all of us, and I would say that affects most of us. It's worst at the beginning, when you're l ....
Comment preview: Surgeon here. It's doubtful that this finding is of any relevance to better modern surgery skills today. Currently robotic surgery doesn't actually even use robotic assistance. The surgeon still controls every single movement and function of the mechani ....
Comment preview: Plastic surgeon here. This type of wound closure is reserved for wounds that are to wide to close primarily (sow edge to edge). The red stitch is called a vessel loop and is elastic. By gradually tightening it, the wound over a long time is pulled togethe ....
Comment preview: Eye surgeon here. Several things: Yes, that can happen and does happen. It's how your surgeon manages that that makes all the difference. This has happened to patients of mine and they have been 20/20 the next day, not knowing anything wrong happened. N ....
Comment preview: Surgeon here. They are the same. Variations of the position and length of segments such as the appendix vary only slightly. The general "mess" is organized. This is due to the mesentary which supplies the vascular and nervous input to the organ. This also ....
Comment preview: Maxillofacial surgeon here: The disease process that has resulted in extensive necrosis is necrotizing fasciitis (its also consistent with a fungal infection like mucormycosis). I see a lot of comments here that suggest the tooth "caused" this, but that's ....
Comment preview: Army orthopaedic surgeon here. This is a very good question, and one I get asked all the time. Short answer: no. Bacteria on the end of a bullet is still infectious in a wound. You'd think that because it's going fast enough and it gets hot enough that ....
Comment preview: Orthopaedic surgeon here. These things are useless, as they can't be molded to the patients arm. Unfortunately, many people seem to think that a cast is just a rigid brace around the limb, following its outline - it's not. A proper cast uses three point ....
Comment preview: Surgeon here: First remember, ABC's. That is Airway, Breathing, Circulation. Keep in mind that a lot of these are often done simultaneously. This is from ATLS (advanced trauma life support). 1) Secure the trachea to ensure a patent airway. Without airw ....
Comment preview: Orthopedic and hand surgeon here: I do these. This is a variant of a pedicled groin flap. You raise the skin of the flap from the donor site (in this case the lateral thigh all the way down to the knee) and maintain a flap base still connected to the do ....
Comment preview: Plastic surgeon here. Agreed, this is not the first "plastic surgery" case, but the concept of plastic surgery as its own subspecialty of surgery is an early 20th century concept. As for the picture, yes he looks like a Caucasian Kato in the end, but his o ....
Comment preview: Cardiac transplant surgeon here. A few comments. I do not know about this particular case, but it is not and has not been my experience that a patient would keep or see their own heart after the operation. The specimen goes to the pathologist and is usuall ....
Comment preview: It isn't his. The last time this photo was submitted to /r/pics or /r/WTF somebody in the know explained the story. I wish I could do it convincingly enough for you, but I definitely remember that this guy isn't holding his own heart. ^edit [And here we go ....
Comment preview: /u/heart_surgeon explained perfectly this the last time this was reposted >Cardiac transplant surgeon here. A few comments. I do not know about this particular case, but it is not and has not been my experience that a patient would keep or see their own ....
Comment preview: /u/heart_surgeon explained perfectly this the last time this was reposted >Cardiac transplant surgeon here. A few comments. I do not know about this particular case, but it is not and has not been my experience that a patient would keep or see their own ....
Comment preview: Surgeon here: Wounds like this are common in smokers and especially diabetics. Chronic peripheral vascular disease inhibits the blood flow to the extremities, the diabetes kills the sensory nerves, and the patients create wounds by hitting their feet on t ....
Comment preview: Surgeon here with a related story: I do vasectomies, and our general policy is to have the patient submit a semen specimen 6 weeks after the operation so we can confirm it was a success and the patient is indeed sterile. 99% of the patients do this, but so ....
Comment preview: ***ANSWERS FROM PREVIOUS TIMES THIS GOT POSTED:*** CatalyticDragon: It's the tube skin-flap technique for getting blood from one area to another area. Not a big page but; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking-stalk_skin_flap[1] ThePod: Orthopedic and hand s ....
Comment preview: Surgeon here. Like everybody has said, the odds of actually having to evacuate the building in the middle of the case right away without prior warning is really implausible, but I think that's what OP wants to hear about so here goes; Honestly, I would mak ....
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Comment preview: Cardiac transplant surgeon here. A few comments. I do not know about this particular case, but it is not and has not been my experience that a patient would keep or see their own heart after the operation. The specimen goes to the pathologist and is usuall ....
Comment preview: Surgeon here, I thought there would be more of us on reddit. I don't generally think of cases as "vile," but there are some that most people would count as flat out disgusting. As /u/drshooter said, Fournier's gangrene or any other necrotizing infection h ....
Comment preview: Plastic surgeon here. The pictures depict a series of procedures for reconstruction using "walking flaps" or tube flaps. The concept is easier to understand if you think of the skin/fat that they are moving as bridges, with the traffic going both ways on t ....
Comment preview: Surgeon here. Just wanted to weigh in on the authenticity of this and the others in the album. They look real. Some fresh and some in various stages of healing. Skin and fat vessels will generally stop bleeding on there own due to construction. They don't ....
Comment preview: General Surgeon Here: About 15 years ago I was called to consult on a patient in the psych ward with a bowel obstruction & hadn't had a bowel movement for 10 days. He said he felt like he wasn't thinking well, and like he "needed more logic" so he d ....
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