I'm going to start showing a LOT more YoutTube videos on this blog....

Now that THIS is available.

Shall we start with a Below the Knee Amputation?

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The closest I've come to performing surgery on my self was the time I popped a really big zit behind my ear. Heck, that sucker might have even been a cyst or something. The cases I've managed to dig out and list below are, shall we say, way more friggin' impressive. Oh, and Wikipedia has a neat…
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I've been ragging a lot on some of the right wing critics of President Obama's health care reform initiative. Without a doubt, with their talk of "death panels" and their likening the health care reform bill to the beginning of another Nazi-like euthanasia program, they deserve it. But I just saw…
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A few other helpful suggestions we've compiled from personal research. Don't watch while eating a hamburger or steak. Don't send this link to your mom, even if she's a doctor. And do not, under any circumstances, send one of these to your co-workers with the subject line, New From Zooborns, as a joke. It's not funny.

lmao - I wonder whether that was naive, intentional, or a response to someone having done just that.

But right now, I have to fire off some e-mails..

That is one operation that clearly is done to save lives, I assume. I'm glad somebody can do it.

One person's learning is another person's porn.

One person's beauty is another person's disgust.

One person's morality is another person's immorality.

By NewEnglandBob (not verified) on 04 Apr 2009 #permalink

Did anyone else giggle a little when the doctors were all surprised to discover breast implants during the autopsy?

Fascinating. But it went so fast I couldn't quite catch; did they put some kind of pad or bridge on the lower end of the bone? How does the point of amputation become able to support weight?

charfles: Yep. I managed to catch it before the narrator mentioned it, too.

george.w: well, they mention a bone bridge in the latter part, and I didn't see anything cut off that would fit there, so I assume it's something they attach to the bone after the cut.