It's not what you'd think based on where this was posted, no diversity hire gone wrong: in the 1800's before anesthesia speed was the top priority of amputations and surgeries. A very fast surgeon sliced open an artery on another surgeon during a speed surgery, killed the patient, the other surgeon, and someone watching it passed out from shock of all the blood and died. Gruesome as possible
Robert Liston. He was a surgeon in the early 19th century, in a time where anesthetics weren't available, so surgeons worked as fast as possible to minimize the amount of time the patient was in acute pain - because the patient was in pretty fucking severe acute pain. That led to surgeons basically competing to see who could do surgery the fastest, which culminated in Liston's legendary 300% mortality rate OP was talking about. Here's an article about it, if you google the name you'll find plenty more. https://allthatsinteresting.com/robert-liston
Tell me more about that, please, I love this.
Some guy fucked up the surgery on a patient, sliced a another surgeon or something by accident, witness had a heart attack or something.
It's not what you'd think based on where this was posted, no diversity hire gone wrong: in the 1800's before anesthesia speed was the top priority of amputations and surgeries. A very fast surgeon sliced open an artery on another surgeon during a speed surgery, killed the patient, the other surgeon, and someone watching it passed out from shock of all the blood and died. Gruesome as possible
Robert Liston. He was a surgeon in the early 19th century, in a time where anesthetics weren't available, so surgeons worked as fast as possible to minimize the amount of time the patient was in acute pain - because the patient was in pretty fucking severe acute pain. That led to surgeons basically competing to see who could do surgery the fastest, which culminated in Liston's legendary 300% mortality rate OP was talking about. Here's an article about it, if you google the name you'll find plenty more. https://allthatsinteresting.com/robert-liston
Thank you. This is super interesting.
Just don't try it at home.