This was the single most ridiculous thing in @GameOfThrones. As a surgeon, I know that, pre-surgery and pre-antibiotics, mortality from stab wounds to the abdomen was astronomical. If bowel or colon was punctured death from intraabdominal sepsis within days was all but certain.1/https://twitter.com/Aggy_C/status/1038833647644749824 …
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The only way Arya could have survived those wounds would have been if they all missed bowel, stomach, colon, and major blood vessels—unlikely in a girl as thin as Arya. 2/
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Things like that are so medically implausible that they destroy my willing suspension of disbelief needed to enjoy a fantasy story. 3/3
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Well, the South African experience with stab wounds suggests selective non-operative management can be quite acceptable. Even with peritoneal violation, there is no visceral injury a third of the time. So the probability she would survive is about 30%.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6692123
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Here's the scene. I'd put her odds at a lot lower than 30%, particularly given medieval medical knowledge.
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not quite medieval tho. dragons and magic and whatnot
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In a medieval setting. So medieval.
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