> It seemed like an opportunity for more people to just learn some of the skills for these expensive procedures so out of curiosity, I looked up what army fiel

> It seemed like an opportunity for more people to just learn some of the skills for these expensive procedures so out of curiosity, I looked up what army field medics learn. It's a 16 week course. Stitches, bone setting, and minor surgeries should be done by the equivalent of barbers. But "can I do it?" and "can I do it well?" are different questions. For instance (IIRC), badly done stitches can leave more of a scar than expertly done ones and a badly set bone may heal in the wrong position. There's also knowing the difference between typical situations and more unusual ones that look similar but require a different treatment. It's not a bad thing to know how to do those things for an emergency, which is the context an army field medic would do them, but that's quite different from an everyday accident with accessible medical care.