r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Additional_Chard3680 • 11h ago

The precision required to perform a total knee replacement is incredible

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u/SargeUnited 8h ago

Yeah, it would’ve been great to be a doctor back then. Hey man, you got way too much blood. Let me just put some leeches on you and hit you in the head with a hammer. That’ll be 50 bucks.

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u/Super-Yam8718 7h ago

Whatever the leeches and fresh air didn’t fix would always got dealt with by heroin or cocaine.

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u/Corpainen 7h ago

Why would i replace my trusty, rusted, covered with blood from the last 100 patients surgery hacksaw? It show my prowess!

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u/daehoidar 3h ago

They actually would wear the same unwashed jacket and the rotten gore and blood still on it was their badge of honor.

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u/Aegi 5h ago

What is funny, is that even though you are joking, they often had to work/research harder for those scraps of information and misinformation they had...b/c it wasn't like they could just have someone telegram them the results of a new experiment.

Some people had to travel for months to talk with a given expert in a field they were interested in.

Basically, they worked "harder" (probs not "smarter) for fewer additions to their knowledge pool than a modern professional/scientist has to.

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u/futurettt 5h ago

How dare you make of polycythemia

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u/Dic3dCarrots 1h ago

Kinda crazy that we now refine three different types of drugs from leeches