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A character for one reason or another can't go to a hospital, or [[After-Action Patchup|even get another character to help]], so they treat their own injuries. An oft-seen version of this trope (to establish the [[Badass]] credentials of a character) involves sewing the injury up, with or without the use of anaesthetic. They may also [[Heal It with Fire]].

May involve [[We Have to Get the Bullet Out]] or [[Life or Limb Decision]]. If the character isn't medically trained, it's probably an examplle of [[Worst Aid]]. If they ''are'', it's a particularly extreme example of [[One of Our Own]].

 

 

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* [[Career Killer]] [[Leon]] returns to his apartment and is seen patching himself up in the shower, showing that he had been injured carrying out one of his hits.

* Chigurh does this in ''[[No Country for Old Men]]'', as if he wasn't [[Badass]] enough. He [[We Need a Distraction|torches a car so he can steal the antibiotics he needs from a chemist shop unobserved]]. Moss has to patch himself up as well, but his attempt is considerably more amateur.

* The antagonist in ''[[Pan's Labyrinth]]'' sews his [[Glasgow Grin|forcefully extended smile]] shut on camera.

* Played with in ''[[Silent Running]]'' when the protagonist reprograms a robot to perform surgery on his badly injured leg.

* Possibly subverted on ''[[Lost]]''. Jack insists on being awake so he can talk Juliet through performing an appendectomy on him, but after she begins they decide to knock him out as he's in too much pain.

* This seems to be the only kind of medical attention the boys of ''[[Supernatural]]'' ever receive.

* Happens semi-regularly on ''[[House (TV series)|House]]''. Perhaps one of the most unpleasant examples came when House discovered he had several small tumours in his leg, and was forced to cut his leg open to remove them.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 3: Snake Eater''. Part of the gameplay is that, rather than just [[Hyperactive Metabolism|eating Rations to heal]], you have to perform first aid on yourself to recover from most injuries. That includes digging out bullets and arrows with your knife, sewing up wounds, and the like.

 

 

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[[Category:Injury Tropes]]