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'''Medic''': ''"[[Herr Doctor|Vell]], no. But as long as you are, [[Crosses the Line Twice|could you hold your rib cage open a bit?]] I can't... seem to..."''<br />
'''Heavy''': ''[[Worst Aid|[Screams]]]''<br />
'''Medic''': ''"Oh, don't be such a baby... [[Healing Factor|ribs grow back!]]" {{[[[Two
Surgeries are dangerous and delicate things. There's a reason why "[[This
Naturally, expect this aspect of medicine to be thrown away in the name of [[Rule of Funny|comedy]]: the nurse will give the surgeon a [[Drop the Hammer|hammer]] and he'll immediately proceed to whack away violently, then an [[An Axe to Grind|axe]] and proceed to hack away, then a [[This Is a Drill|drill]], then a [[Chainsaw Good|chainsaw]], then [[Noodle Implements|an eggbeater]], then...
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== Video Games ==
* The flash game [[Amateur Surgeon]] is based all around this since the main character is a [[Back
* The ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]'' video ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36lSzUMBJnc Meet the Medic]''. Roughly half the video involves the RED Medic performing surgery on the Heavy, in a procedure involving a device ({{spoiler|which, as it turns out, enables the Übercharge in-game}}) getting shoved onto Heavy's still-beating heart, said heart ''exploding'' and being replaced with a "Mega Baboon" heart, and Medic pushing the organ into the Heavy's chest cavity so hard he breaks off a rib. All while the Heavy is awake, mind you.
** Not to mention he allows his pet doves to roam the room during operations. [[Named After Somebody Famous|Archimedes]], pictured above, even likes to hang out inside patients' ribcages. The only thing the Medic finds objectionable about this is that "It's filthy in there!".
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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.
* Amputating limbs is done with electric saw. It also looks and acts a lot like a regular hand tool.
* A few prehistoric skulls have been found with [
* Battlefield surgery until surprisingly recently could be like this. They would amputate with a saw and cauterize with a branding iron [[Fate Worse Than Death|with no anesthetic]] other than rum and opium. Which wasn't always given.
** This is a popular myth, but [[Did Not Do the Research|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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