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2[-[[caption-width-right:350:Image by [[http://www.jean-claude-claeys.com/ Jean-Claude Claeys]].]]-]
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4->''"Take off all your clothing,''\
5''We've only just begun.''\
6''We have no anesthesia,''\
7''It's 1841!"''
8-->-- '''Music/EmilieAutumn''', "Miss Lucy Had Some Leeches"
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10The glint of a sharpened scalpel, the whine of a dull, rusty dentist drill, [[OhCrap the look of terror on a patient's face when he realizes just what that saw is for.]] There's something about being helplessly StrappedToAnOperatingTable, with the surgeons looming over you cutting you up and anesthesia slowly dulling your mind, that seems to have a certain appeal to horror authors. Expect plenty of [[AfraidOfNeedles hypodermic needles]], oversized bone saws, and of course the good old {{lobotomy}} tools.
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12Psychological horror, involving soothing happy pills and a nice padded room, also fits in this index. Most of the things here are also MedicalTreatmentTropes.
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17[[index]]
18* AbandonedHospital
19* AbandonedHospitalAwakening
20* AfraidOfBlood
21* AfraidOfDoctors
22* AfraidOfNeedles
23* AmputationStopsSpread
24* AnatomicallyIgnorantHealing
25* AnArmAndALeg
26* ArtificialLimbs
27* BackAlleyDoctor
28* BattleaxeNurse
29* BedlamHouse
30* BioAugmentation
31* BizarreAlienBiology
32* BodyHorror
33* BodyOfBodies
34* CATTrap
35* ChemicalMessiah: A drug that people hoard and worship insanely even though it does more harm than good.
36* ComicallyIneptHealing
37* ConjoinedTwins: Twin siblings who are born fused together.
38* ContaminationSituation
39* CreepyPhysical
40* CreepySouvenir
41* CrisisPointHospital: A hospital overwhelmed and failing in the face of a crisis - or maybe just by nature.
42* CuckooNest
43* CyberneticsEatYourSoul
44* {{Cyborg}}: A being who is half-human and half-machine.
45* DeadlyDoctor
46* DepravedDentist: A dentist who enjoys causing their victims pain.
47* DoctorsDisgracefulDemotion: A MadDoctor or MadScientist loses their license for malpractice.
48* DrPsychPatient
49* ElectroconvulsiveTherapyIsTorture
50* EscapedFromTheLab
51* EvilutionaryBiologist: An evil geneticist whose goal is to improve the human race on their terms.
52* EyeScream: Violence inflicted on the eyes.
53* FleshGolem
54* FrankensteinsMonster
55* FreakLabAccident
56* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke
57* GiantMedicalSyringe: "Big needle, big needle!"
58* GuineaPigFamily: A scientists conducts his experiments by using his relatives as test subjects.
59* HarmfulHealing
60* HumanResources
61* InfectionScene
62* InPlaceOfAnEye
63* KidnappedForExperimentation: When the MadScientist resorts to abducting test subjects.
64* LegoGenetics: Genetic modification, far from the intricate process in real life, can be performed quickly and haphazardly in media and still turn out okay (most of the time, at least).
65* LifeOrLimbDecision: A character gets one of their limbs trapped and has to choose between dying by staying where they are or cutting off the trapped limb to escape.
66* {{Lobotomy}}
67* MadDoctor
68* MadScientist
69* MadScientistLaboratory
70* MagicGenetics
71* MalevolentMutilation
72* MeatgrinderSurgery
73* MedicalRapeAndImpregnate: Using medical equipment to impregnate women without their consent.
74* MegaMicrobes
75* MonstrousGerms
76* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: A villain who happens to be a doctor of some sort.
77* ObsceneOBGYN: A morally-compomised gynecologist or urologist.
78* OrderliesAreCreeps
79* OrganAutonomy: Body parts that are sentient and able to live independently of the bodies they belong to.
80* OrganTheft: Stealing people's organs.
81* PatientZero
82* PlayingWithSyringes
83* PredatoryBigPharma
84* ProfessorGuineaPig: A scientist tests their experiment on themselves.
85* ProstheticLimbReveal
86* PsychoPsychologist
87* PsychoSerum: A serum that makes people powerful at the cost of also stripping away their sanity.
88* QuackDoctor: A "doctor" whose medical legitimacy is quite questionable.
89* RaisedInALab
90* RoadsideSurgery
91* RoomFullOfCrazy
92* ScaryStitches
93* SelfSurgery: Someone ends up having to perform surgery on themselves.
94* SkipTheAnesthetic: A character undergoes surgery or some other painful medical procedure without any sort of pain-reliever being used on them.
95* StrappedToAnOperatingTable
96* SuperSerum: A serum that enables super powers.
97* SymbolicMutilation
98* TheyWouldCutYouUp
99* TwoBeingsOneBody
100* UnwillingRoboticisation
101* UnwittingTestSubject
102* ViralTransformation
103* TheVirus
104* WalkingTransplant
105* WrongfullyCommitted
106* YouWontFeelAThing
107[[/index]]

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