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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Yup. And if they had set it up like maybe that type of bacteria didn't exist that would be one thing. But, Robert Baratheon dies of an infection after being gored in the gut. And Jaime's stump had gangrene after his hand got chopped off so clearly it's a factor.
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And Khal Drogo died just because of an infection.
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Yup. And no body cavities were violated. It was a superficial chest wound.
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