Self-Stitching: Difference between revisions

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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]].

* [[Stephen King]] had a grisly short story about a doctor who survives some kind of wreck and winds up on a flyspeck island in the middle of the ocean. Eventually the good doctor has to [[No Party Like a Donner Party|turn cannibal]] on ''himself'', cutting off certain parts, eating them, then taking care so that the area around the sacrificed part wouldn't get infected or anything. At the very end of the story the doctor, who is a surgeon and has been taking very good care of his hands the whole time, finally gets desperate enough to start looking at them... (Apparently when King first had this idea, he ran into a local doctor he knew at the supermarket and asked about whether the idea was at all feasible in real life. The doctor gave him a very odd look before replying that yes, it was theoretically possible).

* Igors in [[Discworld]] do surgery on themselves all the time. Subverted, in a way, in that they don't actually feel any pain while doing this, so it's never an ordeal unless they have difficulty keeping the mirror steady. Even the visible scars are an affectation - they're perfectly capable of stitching seamlessly.

 

 

== Real Life ==

* Professional chefs regularly keep superglue in their knife kits just in case they give themselves a serious knife wound while working. And by serious, we're talking "cut to the bone" serious. Anything less and its "slap a blue bandaid on it and move on".

* The top four entries of [http://www.cracked.com/article_19218_6-insane-diy-surgeries-you-wont-believe-actually-worked_p2.html this] article.

 

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