Today I learned of the surgeon Robert Liston, who once amputated a patient's leg (who died), but also accidentally amputated his assistant's fingers (who died) and slashed through the coat of a spectator (who died) This surgery had a 300% mortality rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Liston …
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Amputated the leg in under 21⁄2 minutes (the patient died afterwards in the ward from hospital gangrene; they usually did in those pre-Listerian days). He amputated in addition the fingers of his young assistant (who died afterwards in the ward from hospital gangrene).
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He also slashed through the coat tails of a distinguished surgical spectator, who was so terrified that the knife had pierced his vitals he dropped dead from fright. That was the only operation in history with a 300 percent mortality.” Jesus...
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