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Saw a photo of a surgeon removing his own gall bladder. This from the 1920s. The reason he did this was to further his belief that general anesthesia was bein
by JJMcJ 6y ago
Saw a photo of a surgeon removing his own gall bladder. This from the 1920s. The reason he did this was to further his belief that general anesthesia was being over used.
- Shared404 6y agoDo you have a link? I'd love to read more about that.
- severine 6y agoSounds like Evan O'Neill Kane. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/iEvan_O%27Neill_Kane?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/iEvan_O%27Neill_Kane?wprov=sfl... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-surgery?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-surgery?wprov=sfla1
- Shared404 6y agoMany thanks. That's incredible to read about, I have to respect him a lot for being willing to try his theory on himself first.
- nextaccountic 6y agoDid this change his mind about general anesthesia?
- DoofusOfDeath 6y agoMy grandfather was a young man in Ireland around then. His job was to hold un-anesthetized surgical patients still. When he was old and in the U.S. (late 1960s?) he chose suicide over surgery.
- retrac 6y agoIt maybe is. The surgeon was surprised when I declined general anesthesia for surgery on my wrist bones. Apparently nearly everyone wants to be put under if they're going to cut. Objectively sedation would be the riskiest part of the procedure. And I wanted to see what it looked like. It was completely painless, but also quite unsettling. I'm pretty distant and cold about things in general, and I would imagine other people might find it distressing or even traumatic.
- aaron695 6y agoThere have been studies on babies with and without anesthesia. From memory, with anesthesia was better for the baby. But being one of the many political biologies I'm not sure I'd trust the result.
- JJMcJ 6y agoDo you mean anesthesia for the mother during a delivery?
- JJMcJ 6y agoThere are mild sedation techniques. People think they are "put under" because there tends to be no memory of the procedure, but it is not like general anesthesia in the strong sense.
- saalweachter 6y agoOn the topic of performing your own surgery, let's not forget the untrained self-caesarean: https://www.thehealthy.com/pregnancy/woman-performed-own-c-section/ https://www.thehealthy.com/pregnancy/woman-performed-own-c-s...