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
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.