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** This is a popular myth, but not exactly based in historical fact. Ether was available as early as the Civil War, and the use of forceps to tie off the blood vessels and arteries was invented in Ancient Egypt and rediscovered in the 1600s. Battlefield surgery wasn't ''pretty'', but it wasn't "biting the bullet" either.
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** This is a popular myth, but not exactly based in historical fact. Ether was available as early as the Civil War, TheAmericanCivilWar, and the use of forceps to tie off the blood vessels and arteries was invented (invented, among other places, in Ancient Egypt and Egypt) had been rediscovered in the 1600s.1600s - not that, of course, without the sterilisation of medical instruments being a given, it helped survival rates much. Battlefield surgery wasn't ''pretty'', but it wasn't "biting the bullet" either. It was the recovery process in the hospitals that was more likely to kill you, actually, as you waited around to see if you got gangrene or not and tried not to catch anything from the people around you.
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* Doctor Zed in ''Videogame/BorderLands2'' asks the protagonists (crazy gun-toting badasses) to assist in an operation to mend a captured Hyperion engineer's lungs; asking the player to carefully make a small incision below the sternum. Pressing the button to "Perform surgery" causes you to stab the man in the chest with a pickaxe or punch his chest open.
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-->Zed: ''Eh, close enough''
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* ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'' presents 1980's medicine as this, from the perspective of 23rd century starfleet surgeon Dr. Leonard "Bones" [=McCoy=], along with a subplot to rescue Chekhov from such ''primitive'' attempts at medicine.
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* Standard medical practice in ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'''s Ankh-Morpork is hitting the patient over the head with a hammer. The only real doctor in the city (Dr. Lawn from ''Discworld/NightWatch'') is seen as crazy for worrying about things like sanitation, sterilization, and the survival of his patients. One of the reasons that, prior to ''Night Watch'', the most employed physician in the city was Doughnut Jimmy, a horse vet. After all, a good racehorse is expensive and a big earner, so Jimmy could choose between keeping his patients alive or waking up in a bag on the Ankh.
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* Standard medical practice in ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'''s Ankh-Morpork is involves hitting the patient over the head with a hammer.hammer to anesthetize them. The only real doctor in the city (Dr. Lawn from ''Discworld/NightWatch'') is seen as crazy for worrying about things like sanitation, sterilization, and the survival of his patients. One patients... until Sam Vimes rewarded him for [[spoiler: saving his wife and newborn son]] by helping him open his own hospital. This is one of the reasons that, prior to ''Night Watch'', the most employed physician in the city was Doughnut Jimmy, "Doughnut Jimmy" Folsom, a horse vet. After all, The reasoning goes, a good racehorse is expensive and a big earner, so Jimmy could choose between keeping his patients alive or waking up in a bag on having the Ankh.last words he hear be something like "Da boss is ''very'' unhappy."
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* One StargateSG1 episode involved Colonel Mitchell (who is NOT a doctor) performing surgery on a severely injured Carter while hiding out from bad guys.
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* Kenny gets one of these in ''SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut'', after his attempt to set his fart on fire literally backfires. They end up replacing his heart with a baked potato.
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* Kenny gets one of these in ''SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut'', ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut'', after his attempt to set his fart on fire literally backfires. They end up replacing his heart with a baked potato.
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* Surgery in {{M*A*S*H}} is not as bad as this trope but the various characters regard it that way since it is a lot rougher than it would be in a proper hospital. The general term used in the show is "Meatball Surgery".
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* Surgery in {{M*A*S*H}} {{MASH}} is not as bad as this trope but the various characters regard it that way since it is a lot rougher than it would be in a proper hospital. The general term used in the show is "Meatball Surgery".
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* Surgery in {{M*A*S*H}} is not as bad as this trope but the various characters regard it that way since it is a lot rougher than it would be in a proper hospital. The general term used in the show is "Meatball Surgery".
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* The events of an episode of StaragteAtlantis forced Dr. Keller perform brain surgery on McKay with a power drill in a dank cave.
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* The events of an one episode of StaragteAtlantis StargateAtlantis forced Dr. Keller perform brain surgery on McKay [=McKay=] with a power drill in a dank cave.
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** This is a popular myth, but [[DidNotDoTheResearch not exactly based in historical fact]]. Ether was available as early as the Civil War, and the use of forceps to tie off the blood vessels and arteries was invented in Ancient Egypt and rediscovered in the 1600s. Battlefield surgery wasn't ''pretty'', but it wasn't "biting the bullet" either.
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** This is a popular myth, but [[DidNotDoTheResearch not exactly based in historical fact]].fact. Ether was available as early as the Civil War, and the use of forceps to tie off the blood vessels and arteries was invented in Ancient Egypt and rediscovered in the 1600s. Battlefield surgery wasn't ''pretty'', but it wasn't "biting the bullet" either.
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* Orthopedic surgery (in layman's terms, ''skeletal'' surgery) can appear this way, with the use of power tools, hand tools, and hardware similar to those seen in a workshop (although sterile and much more expensive), as well as the use of what appears to be strenuous amounts of physical pulling and tugging by surgical staff (to ensure proper alignment of joints and bones, etc.). For this reason, it is said that an orthopedic surgeon must be as strong as an ox, and TWICE as smart!
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* Orthopedic surgery (in layman's terms, ''skeletal'' surgery) can appear this way, with the use of power tools, hand tools, and hardware similar to those seen in a workshop (although sterile and much more expensive), as well as the use of what appears to be strenuous amounts of physical pulling and tugging by surgical staff (to ensure proper alignment of joints and bones, etc.). For this reason, it is said that an orthopedic surgeon must be as strong as an ox, and TWICE as smart!smart[[note]]preferably twice as smart as normal human[[/note]]!
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* ''Batting Female Doctor Saori'' is about a female doctor[[note]]named Saori[[/note]] who heals her patients by hitting them. With a baseball bat. [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom Usually across the room]]. Not only that, she can repair cars, tame panthers and win baseball games with her skill.
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* Orthopedic surgery (in layman's terms, ''skeletal'' surgery) can appear this way, with the use of power tools, hand tools, and hardware similar to those seen in a workshop (although sterile and much more expensive), as well as the use of what appears to be strenuous amounts of physical pulling and tugging by surgical staff (to ensure proper alignment of joints and bones, etc.).
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* Orthopedic surgery (in layman's terms, ''skeletal'' surgery) can appear this way, with the use of power tools, hand tools, and hardware similar to those seen in a workshop (although sterile and much more expensive), as well as the use of what appears to be strenuous amounts of physical pulling and tugging by surgical staff (to ensure proper alignment of joints and bones, etc.). For this reason, it is said that an orthopedic surgeon must be as strong as an ox, and TWICE as smart!
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* This type was used quite a bit in ''MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''.
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* This trope is used in ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'' by Ork doctors, the painboyz (also known as Doks, or Mad Doks). Some don't even bother to use anesthetic at all, preferring to have their patient squirming and kicking so they know he's still alive. Orks are so inhumanly tough that they not only survive, but usually fully recover very quickly.
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* This trope is used in ''{{Warhammer ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' by Ork doctors, the painboyz (also known as Doks, or Mad Doks). Some don't even bother to use anesthetic at all, preferring to have their patient squirming and kicking so they know he's still alive. Orks are so inhumanly tough that they not only survive, but usually fully recover very quickly.
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* Brain surgery involves drilling a hole in someone's head. The drill is pretty much the same as the one you use at home, just a little more fancy. At least it looks and acts mostly the same.
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* Brain surgery involves drilling a hole in someone's head. The drill is pretty much the same as the one you use at home, just a little more fancy.fancy, and a '''lot''' more expensive. At least it looks and acts mostly the same.
** There's a reason why in times past, one common nickname for a doctor was "sawbones"
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* Standard medical practice in ''{{Discworld}}'''s Ankh-Morpork is hitting the patient over the head with a hammer. The only real doctor in the city (Dr. Lawn from ''Discworld/NightWatch'') is seen as crazy for worrying about things like sanitation, sterilization, and the survival of his patients. One of the reasons that, prior to Discworld/NightWatch, the most employed physician in the city was Doughnut Jimmy, a horse vet. After all, a good racehorse is expensive and a big earner, so Jimmy could choose between keeping his patients alive or waking up in a bag on the Ankh.
** Ankh-Morpork is also the home of the the delightful new form of medicine known as [[http://wiki.lspace.org/wiki/Retrophrenology "retrophrenology"]]
** Ankh-Morpork is also the home of the the delightful new form of medicine known as [[http://wiki.lspace.org/wiki/Retrophrenology "retrophrenology"]]
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* Standard medical practice in ''{{Discworld}}'''s ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'''s Ankh-Morpork is hitting the patient over the head with a hammer. The only real doctor in the city (Dr. Lawn from ''Discworld/NightWatch'') is seen as crazy for worrying about things like sanitation, sterilization, and the survival of his patients. One of the reasons that, prior to Discworld/NightWatch, ''Night Watch'', the most employed physician in the city was Doughnut Jimmy, a horse vet. After all, a good racehorse is expensive and a big earner, so Jimmy could choose between keeping his patients alive or waking up in a bag on the Ankh.
** Ankh-Morpork is also the home of the the delightful new form of medicine known as [[http://wiki.lspace.org/wiki/Retrophrenology"retrophrenology"]]"retrophrenology"]].
** Ankh-Morpork is also the home of the the delightful new form of medicine known as [[http://wiki.lspace.org/wiki/Retrophrenology
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* ''Film/MontyPythonsTheMeaningOfLife'' features two "surgeons" forcibly harvesting organs from a man just because he's got an organ donor card. Mostly offscreen but obviously MeatgrinderSurgery.
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* ''Film/MontyPythonsTheMeaningOfLife'' features two "surgeons" forcibly harvesting organs from a man just because he's got an organ donor card. Mostly offscreen but obviously MeatgrinderSurgery.Meat Grinder Surgery.
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* Ice Pick Brain Surgery.
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* Ice Pick Brain Surgery.
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-->--''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36lSzUMBJnc "Meet the Medic"]]
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-->--''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'',"''
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'''Heavy''': ''[[WorstAid [Screams]]]''\\
'''Medic''': ''"Oh, don't be such a baby... [[HealingFactor ribs grow back!]]" [[[TwoFacedAside to pet dove]]] "No zey don't.''"
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'''Medic''': ''"Oh, don't be such a baby... [[HealingFactor ribs grow back!]]" [[[TwoFacedAside to pet dove]]] "No zey don't.''""''\\
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* ''MontyPythonsTheMeaningOfLife'' ''Film/MontyPythonsTheMeaningOfLife'' features two "surgeons" forcibly harvesting organs from a man just because he's got an organ donor card. Mostly offscreen but obviously MeatgrinderSurgery.
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* Eric Flint's book ''1812: The Rivers of War'' provides an excellent example of this, which was TruthInTelevision at the time. The patient denies the issued anaestetic, which is raw Navy rum (he has a bottle of emergency laudanum packed away, which he uses), but he knows that refusing the anaesthetic the surgeon tried to give him would be good for his reputation regardless. Also, a quote:
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* Eric Flint's book ''1812: ''[[Literature/TrailOfGlory 1812: The Rivers of War'' War]]'' provides an excellent example of this, which was TruthInTelevision at the time. The patient denies the issued anaestetic, which is raw Navy rum (he has a bottle of emergency laudanum packed away, which he uses), but he knows that refusing the anaesthetic the surgeon tried to give him would be good for his reputation regardless. Also, a quote:
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* [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Dr. Nick Riviera]] is basically the living avatar of this trope.
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* [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Dr. Nick Riviera]] is basically the living avatar of this trope. He was once brought before a malpractice committee for over 100 heinous charges, including performing surgery with a knife and fork from a seafood restaurant ("But I cleaned them with my napkin!")
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'''Medic''': ''"Oh, don't be such a baby... [[HealingFactor ribs grow back!]]" [[[TwoFacedAside to pet dove]]] "No zey don't.''"\\''"