RE: There's social distancing, and then there's SOCIAL DISTANCING!!!!!
March 24, 2020 at 10:37 am
(March 24, 2020 at 10:02 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:(March 24, 2020 at 8:48 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: This reminds me of that scene in "Master and Commander" when the ship's doctor has to operate on himself.And the jokes started:
But talking about crazy appendectomy, there was also Dean Rector who had first appendectomy on a submarine and it was during ww2 in Japanese waters. He was operated by ship’s pharmacist’s assistant, who had no medical training, did not know what an appendix looked like or where it was to be found, and had no surgical equipment to work with, and yet he managed to do it.
Radio conversation, hospital to sub:
HOS: Okay, are you read to make the incision?
HM*: I'm ready!
Radio interference blocks communication.
HOS: We're back! Where are you?
HM: Incision made!
HOS: How did you know where to cut?
HM: I cut along the old scar.
*Hospitalman, or corpsman.
Actually, there was a joke and it went like: “Look, Dean, I never did anything like this before, but you don’t have much chance to pull through anyhow, so what do you say?”
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