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I think you are right. Medical procedures would likely go back to basics: Bad tooth? Pull it out. Broken leg? Maybe amputate. However, with the right provision
by eCa 14y ago
I think you are right. Medical procedures would likely go back to basics: Bad tooth? Pull it out. Broken leg? Maybe amputate.
However, with the right provisions fairly advanced procedures should be possible to carry out with minimum personnel. For instance, in 1961 a Russian doctor in Antarctica removed his own infected appendix [1].
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-surgery http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-surgery
- danielweber 14y agoAmputate a broken leg? Just how bad do you foresee that injury? It's not like we can't ship anesthetics up there. It's not like a layman can't set a broken bone, although I dunno if an X-ray machine would be there to see.