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* In ''[[Afro Samurai]]'', when {{spoiler|Jinno is turned into a cyborg}}. This might qualify as [[Black Comedy]], or the cartoonish nature of the scene might make it worse.

 

* ''[https://www.wattpad.com/story/186178291-spice-fortress Spice Fortress]'' has Melanie The Fighter subjected to this while awake and seems chilled. [[Sarcasm Mode| At least, she paid her taxes.]]

 

* ''[[Monty Python's The Meaning of Life]]'' features two "surgeons" forcibly harvesting organs from a man just because he's got an organ donor card. Mostly offscreen but obviously Meatgrinder Surgery.

{{quote|'''Man:''' "Mr Jones? We've come for you liver."

* This trope is common in ''[[The Three Stooges]]'' shorts, especially the hammer anesthetic.

 

* 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 ''[[Night Watch (Discworld)|Night Watch]]'') 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.

** Ankh-Morpork is also the home of the the delightful new form of medicine known as [https://web.archive.org/web/20091129011413/http://wiki.lspace.org/wiki/Retrophrenology "retrophrenology"]

* Eric Flint's book ''1812: The Rivers of War'' provides an excellent example of this, which was [[Truth in Television]] at the time. The patient declines the issued anesthetic, 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:

{{quote|"Few lumberjacks wielded a saw as vigorously as an Army surgeon after a major battle."}}

* This trope is zig-zagged in the ''[[Temeraire]]'' series. Human medical treatment is standard for the [[Napoleonic Wars]], however the tools used by dragon surgeons could easily pass for melee weapons... but then given the [[Incredibly Lame Pun|scale]] of their patients most of the injuries that can be treated by human physicians are relatively superficial.

 

* This type was used quite a bit in ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]''.

** Gumby [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M68GeL8PafE&feature=related Brain Surgury]

* Comes up in ''[[Sharpe]]'' once or twice, set as it is in the Napoleonic Wars. Sharpe himself removes a man's shattered arm with a sword (it's easier to stop the bleeding from one large wound than lots of little ones) and Harper pulls out one of his own teeth with pliers.

* In the early episodes of the Japanese show ''[[Jin (TV)|Jin]]'', the titular [[Time Travel|time-shifted]] doctor evokes this trope when he uses ''carpenter's tools'' (among other implements) to perform emergency brain surgery on a wounded man, to the horror of onlookers.

 

* The video for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyrXy1TUDlw "Aberinkula"] by the Mars Volta

* The video for [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=notKtAgfwDA "Like A Surgeon"].

 

* This trope is used in ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' 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.

{{quote|'''[[Dawn of War|Mad Dok:]]''' Now this is gonna 'urt ''a lot'' but you'll be bettah, you'll see!...}}

** Players who are already losing anyway will take their frustration out on the patient, who's already screaming anyway.

 

* A skit frequently used at summer camps is all about this, with everyone standing behind a sheet so only the shadows can be seen. There are several variations depending on who is performing it and where, but the one this troper saw included the following:

** The doctors (a normal stethoscope/lab coat doctor and a tribal witch-doctor) initially stated that neither had performed surgery before. It was clear that they had no idea what they were doing.

** Despite the doctors making a huge mess and accomplishing nothing, the patient exclaimed, "I feel much better now!" at the end.

 

* The flash game ''[[Amateur Surgeon]]'' is based all around this since the main character is a [[Back-Alley Doctor]] with a talent for improvising. Why use a scalpel when you have a pizza cutter? Lighters can cauterize pretty well, can't they? Surely a [[Chainsaw Good|Chainsaw]] would make for a perfect bonesaw, right?

* The ''[[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.

* A non-comedic example occurs in ''[[First Encounter Assault Recon|FEAR 2: Project Origin]]'', while [[Player Character|Michael Beckett]] is undergoing surgery to awaken his Harbinger powers, he has a hallucination in which demonic creatures in surgical uniforms claw and hack at his flesh.

 

* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' has some moments.

** Nanoprobes. Dr. Bunnigus [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2016-03-16 checks] how rebuilding of Ebbirnoth is going. Of course, compared to the pre-existing massive damage, a little knife doesn't really change anything.

* Llewellyn's fear of dentists in ''[[Ozy and Millie]]'' comes from [https://ozyandmillie.org/comic/ozy-and-millie-178/ the experience he had of them as a child], being operated on with very crude tools in blatantly unsanitary conditions.

 

* Used in ''[[Cow and Chicken]]'' for plastic surgery during a plastic surgery contest.

* Also used for ''amateur'' plastic surgery in the ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]'' episode "Super Model".

* Kenny gets one of these in ''[[South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut]]'', after his attempt to set his fart on fire literally backfires. They end up replacing his heart with a baked potato.

 

* 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.