• Lancashire man performs operation on himself, survives
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[QUOTE][B]An engineer who was left with 8in (20cm) of surgical stitches inside his body after an operation has performed surgery on himself to remove them.[/B] [/QUOTE] [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-37361456[/url]
[I]Hurry up and put money into the NHS you shitty government![/I] I think we can expect more articles about DIY surgery in the coming years with the NHS becoming less funded and the rumours of privatised health care constantly looming.
I honestly want to sit here and bitch him out and talk about how I would never do anything like that. But being in chronic pain myself, I can understand why some people would go to these sorts of lengths.
[QUOTE=DrarrkS52;51052649][I]Hurry up and put money into the NHS you shitty government![/I] I think we can expect more articles about DIY surgery in the coming years with the NHS becoming less funded and the rumours of privatised health care constantly looming.[/QUOTE] Way to thrust your political stance on a completely unrelated story. If you actually read the article, he did this simply because the surguries he booked to get the sutures removed had been cancelled due to sepsis. The article even says: [quote]In a statement, the hospital said that before he operated on himself, Mr Smith was informed he could have an appointment with the original surgeon on Monday.[/quote] So it seems like this guy was just an impatient idiot.
I'm nothing short of impressed. He was also using DIY equipment made from dentist tools. As someone who's had to put stitches on himself, I'd never want to be in the mans shoes of actually having to cut myself open to undo stitches on the inside. The whole fact that he did it by undoing each knot, one at a time.... It's just something that makes my mind go, "Eyup. You are now verified as a certified crazy motherfucker"
That skill will come handy when nutter scientific experiments break loose and everything goes to hell.
i know well done and all but if he nicked a major blood vessel... that's game over. sorry lad you tried. seriously these people are completely insane, with no experience you can't just slice into yourself and then after you potentially fucked it up expect the professionals to do all the work and repair the damage.
[QUOTE=DrarrkS52;51052649][I]Hurry up and put money into the NHS you shitty government![/I] I think we can expect more articles about DIY surgery in the coming years with the NHS becoming less funded and the rumours of privatised health care constantly looming.[/QUOTE] I've already heard some in the US, one about someone making a concrete cast (which they couldn't get off, and it actually burned their skin), one about a guy who used a small metal coil to hold a wound closed (then went to the ER because he couldn't get it out), and several about people using fishing line to hold wounds closed.
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