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For the record. Telling patients that the operation won't hurt; more often, has them rate the experience less painful than "Prepare your soul for death."
@@oz_jones if you did that to patients in modern times, you'd most likely be sued but you're definitely getting reprimanded by the hospital. Joking with patients when they go under is seen as a fun experience for everybody but, at least where i live, there are strict rules on what topics you can use, and potentially scaring someone right before their procedure is a big no no.
I thought it was the opposite. Preparing for something super painful makes the experience less painfull, and thinking it will be painless will make the pain more potent because you're not expecting it.
So turns out, Robert Liston is indirectely referenced in one of my favorite old Disney movies - Atlantis. When you first get introduced to Joshua Sweet the medical officer, he pulls out a massive saw and says the catalog he got it from said it could saw through a femur in 28 seconds - Liston's personal record for a complete leg amputation.
Imagine medicine being so bad it's actually considered the equivalent of a hot take at the time to say "causing pain and suffering to a patient is cruel and unethical"
Unfortunately. The idea it's unethical to cause pain and suffering in medicine is actually a failure of medicine. It leads to less effective medical practice to minimise suffering and putting DNR's on people without consent or even informing them if it may cause said suffering to know. So a positive for bleeding hearts, a negative if your heart is bleeding.
really hasn't changed much if you consider how they are forcing people to take an extremely unsafe and completely ineffective "vaccine" the doctors who spoke out against it got cancelled, nothing has changed
I love that people in ye olden days used the "Never trust a skinny chef" logic with the blood on surgeon's aprons. Dude probably just got done bone sawing through an artery but the plebeians are like "the consummate professional"
@@WhuDhat well having an audience for surgeries was a thing at one point. Edit: wrote this before i watched all of it, he brings up that people would watch.
Well to be fair if you got to cut my leg off without anaesthetic. I'd rather a fucker that was good and quick at it then a noob that was freaking out at the sight of blood!
As a biology student, really happy to see this one, Dank! There's a reason why Liston's life is taught in microbiology class and not the lives of those who dissed him. I will never get over the image of Liston being deemed a crazy person because he had the audacity to suggest that surgeons washed their hands. 😂
@@dslbroski4922 Dodge = a trick, usually now used in the sense of "business" or "racket". Yankee because the first guy to try to use ether was an American dentist. Hollow as an adverb = "completely", although I had to look that one up. Mesmerism, well Dank explained that one.
@@thetweefirebug Worth noting, mesmerism and hypnosis aren't the same thing. Hypnosis is actually used even in modern times, and has a lot more to do with guiding attention at a subconscious level. It is used for psychological problems more often than physical, but it is used in pain management and has been used in smaller surgeries as recently as the last century. Under optimal conditions hypnosis can remove the sense of pain as well as anesthetic, but it's more like how when you cut yourself it sometimes doesn't hurt until you look at it. Most of the time it helps in a way closer to laughing gas, so maybe pulling a tooth but definitely not my first choice for amputation. Unlike anesthetic, which blocks the signals from being sent, hypnosis manages pain by convincing your brain to ignoring it, so of course it only blocks pain up to a certain threshold. Mesmerism is that, with the addition of "animal magnetism" as it was called (aka, the BS/"force" part). The whole reason doctors used it was that it did work better than nothing, it just didn't work for any of the reasons that they thought and was outclassed by better options.
Another madlad originating from Scotland would be Thomas Cochrane. The man is a naval legend for his cunning on the high seas, and his exploits are so outlandish that would make pirates of the Caribbean look tame in comparison!
@@danthegamechanger3855 no the captain of the revolutionary War that went full pirate and as a bonus he was Scottish to supplement the navy of the new us he decided to roll up to England and Scotland and raid towns and steal boats and he was the reason we have the modern us flag
Patients often got booze to get drunk and wealthy people took opium tincture (Laudanum), which made things less horrible but still very painful. Ether and later chloroform were true miracles and they originally used it on pretty much every birth and dental work for people who could pay it. The doctors who took random promising chemical to get new anaesthesia drugs should receive an own episode
The ironic thing is that alcohol would just make matters worse, because it thins the blood. You would have a better chance of enduring the pain and living through the shock, but a much higher chance of just bleeding to death anyway.
Humphry Davey (yes, Faraday's mentor) made a gas chamber to get high on nitrous oxide and kept a journal where he wrote down his experiences. It's a pity that he never realised to potential of its pain-numbing capabilities.
11:22 “surgeons were fucking dicks”. As someone in the medical field, this still rings kinda true. Half of surgeons I’ve worked with are really nice and the other half are dicks
Hunters gonna hunt, butchers want to cut. I remember the glisten in my surgeons eye before he cut me. He bragged that he had 3k surgeries all successful. All I could think was you have to fail sometime hope it’s not me. It wasn’t.
ODP here, can confirm that surgeons invariably have a God complex. Hence the joke What's the difference between a consultant surgeon and God? God knows that he's not a consultant.
@@thephantomraspberryblower2675 It's interesting. I wonder if being a surgeon causes you to have a God complex, since you literally can decide if the patient lives or dies, or if people with god complex are more likely to end up as surgeons.
Imagine having surgery and the last thing you see before you pass out is this big fella laughing at you with a fuck off knife in one hand and your severed leg in the other, what a lad
Had "awake surgery" once where they told me "oh all you need is some lidocain" I found out that i'm resistant to lidocain. I could feel what was happening and boy, let me tell you, I thought my surgeon pooped her pants when I said "Well. That hurt."
Found out I’m resistant at the ortho. I’ll take that one over finding out in the surgeries I’ve had. Two back surgeries and a craniotomy. I was lucid and the local hadn’t kicked in for my epidural tho. That shot was rough.
I'm resistant to local anesthesia too. Found out while having a tooth pulled recently. It didn't hurt until about half way through, then it got ROUGH. Afterwards the dentist said "this has never happened to me before".... I was like: This happened to ME not YOU!
@@chemistryofquestionablequa6252 I found out the same way too that I'm very resistant to anaesthetics, topical and otherwise, and also nitrous oxide as well. I had a wisdom tooth whose roots had tentacled into my jaw. The very persistent dentist, and then his veteran colleague who came in to help, tried for 2 and a half hours to get the tooth out, bit by bit. I asked for another freezing needle twice, and at one point stopped them so I could take a steadying breath, and then told them to proceed. I was a bit loopy, but lucid the entire time. They had to increase the nitrous at least twice just to get me the little bit sedated that I was. The older dentist at one point had his foot on the side of the chair and was wrenching my head around. I still have a numb spot on my cheek from the nerve damage he did. I can relate a least a bit to people from history that had to have surgery, because I know first hand what it's like to be aware and able to feel when a procedure was being done. Probably one of the time most traumatic things I have ever gone through.
@@WhyDoBabiesStareAtMe your experience sounds way worse than mine. Facial/dental pain is no joke! I have had chronic testicular pain for more than 15 years and have a high pain tolerance, but I had tears streaming down my cheeks during that extraction.
I’ve actually had a leg cut off without any pain meds, just knocked out so when I woke up I got the legit full effect of having my leg cut off and I promise you. It’s nowhere near like having a tooth pulled.. the only way I can possibly describe the pain is well, it’s like having your goddamn leg sawed off. All I remember was screaming and crying at the same time while they administered nerve blockers then they hit me with ketamine and the doctors and nurses turned into cosmo and Wanda balloons 😂
I had my back operated on in 2010 and I too had a lot of pain. The doctor offered me some morphine but I refused because I was afraid of becoming addicted to opioids. So because I wanted to "tough it out" I spent the next few days sitting there sobbing. When my bandages were replaced I'm pretty sure my screaming convinced the rest of the pediatric intensive care unit that I was being murdered.
Jesus Christ. why did they not give you pain meds? even if you didn't want them? also good luck with rehab, I'm transitioning to a wheelchair and it's a big adjustment.
Sociopath or a psychopath(I mix one of the other) makes for a great surgeon. In one of the books I read, author was talking with plethora of psychopats from two sides of the spectrum: the murdery ones and the ones in law/economy/medicine fields. One of the person he spoken with was a surgeon and he was more efficient than other because he treated humans like a challenge and a machine to fix. Ofc there was no torturing since you can't really operate on the open heart while someone is conscious apart from the brazillian gore vids ofc.
@@chillax319 Yup, surgeon is one of the top 10 careers having psychopaths. I don't remember at what number the article I read put them at. But CEO was definitely #1.
@@chillax319 This is true in medicine, but in economics sociopaths and psychopaths tend to make terrible financial advisors. For all they're lauded for being cold and calculating they're also incredibly brash and impulsive.
Depends on where you amputate the leg. If you amputate at the knee it's very difficult to do so. If you amputate the full leg, you're awfully close to the crown jewels.
Could have been cutting just below the hip and the knife he used was double edged. So he could had come back too far while trying to go fast. Surgical knives are scary sharp, so it would be easy to cut delicate skin without realizing it until it was too late.
"Oh, you know how it goes... it's kind of like popping those air blisters on packing material... it's just so satisfying! Ya, start at the foot and just can't stop!"
My daughter was just telling me about this man today. For some reason they are learning about people like this in history. This man's passion for cutting up bodies turned into saving tons of lives.
Can you imagine being a 18th century surgeon just running around doing whatever surgeries you want to do with a plauge mask on screaming I AM THE CURE and getting paid well for it, just heaven
Still happens around the world. Alotta doctors and nurses can fuck up and quite litterly end lives, and just go "oops, sorry" and move on with their career. Depends where you are, but fucking up usually doesnt get your license revoked, its gotta be a really bad fuck up that effects PR.
Did you know, a mother kissing a wound to ease the pain was something those doctors and surgeons would do? They'd just give your ruptured spleen a good 'ol smooch and you'd be right as rain :) Source: Me, a Pioneer in Misinformation.
In football (soccer) they just have a wet sponge and as soon as that touches their leg every booboo is healed and those compound fractures to reverse snap back into place
When I was about 7 my surgeon lied to me and told me "no cutting" in a heavy Arabic accent shortly before my toe was to be moved to my hand. He was a fantastic surgeon and a very compassionate individual, and I was not stupid despite being 7. I used to have panic attacks before surgeries, the anaesthetic terrified me, but it was still comforting to know that my surgeon cared about my mental well-being in addition to his profession. Also, he was probably tired of having to wait for his nurses wrestle a panicking middle schooler until the kid finally took a breath and passed out.
@@oz_jones sounds crazy but toes are, rarely mind you, used to replace digits on the hand. I'm only a student but I've only heard of it being done in the case of thumb amputation/birth aberration so as to give the patient an opposable digit. Pretty cool stuff. :D
@@oz_jones yes, I'm feeling that anecdote was focused on the wrong part of the story! "Yeah, yeah, yeah, surgeon was good, but we need backstory on the 'toe-thumbs'!"
My mum trained as a Nurse in the 60's,she was at a lecture buy a respected consultant, His opening words were "Ladies we are here today because of the deaths of millions, Medicine is a learning process! P.s He ended with "Don't put anything bigger than your left elbow in your ears. FERK!
I thought the saying was, "don't put anything 'smaller' than your elbow in your ears". For the simple reason, one could easily puncture their eardrum. 👍🙃
Still need Jim Jones and David Koresh for the cultist category. And we need the latter to remind everyone that the government hates you and will gladly trample on your rights
A TV show about this era in medicine would be fantastic. Read "The Butchering Art" in the meantime. It covers Liston, the introduction of ether, and Joseph Lister's efforts to make cleanliness and disinfection a thing in medicine. It's crazy to think other surgeons scoffed at washing their hands or laughed at germ theory.
Med student here. Very interesting video papa Dankula. When hearing that Liston was 6 feet 2 (a very abnormal size for his era) made me wonder if he suffered from Marfan syndrome. This could also explain the aortic aneurism which is a very common finding in this genetic disease.
tbh saving patients lives by simply washing your hands sounded probably as far fetched to victorian surgeons as healing them using 'The Force' sounds to us
This right here is a true madlad. In this series you've covered assholes, big name criminals, people who raised their middle finger to some system in an insane event, but this guy helped with the survivability of our damn species while raising his middle finger. The closest objective truth to life is that it must survive and spread, and this guy improved the statistics of that equation.
“I know that very often it seems that the rapid march of progress is a huge net negative on the spiritual well-being of mankind, but before you take that little Ted pill…” 10/10
A good madlad candidate would be Ignaz Semmelweis, he was another pioneer of hand washing in hospitals, but was so badly mocked by his colleagues he had a nervous breakdown and was committed to an asylum, where he later died. He was described as the ‘saviour of mothers’ due to his initial success in one hospital.
Here in Ireland, a foreign immigrant, managed to fake documents and a CV claiming that he was a surgeon. Then he managed to BS his way threw the interview. I think he just found out beforehand what to say, like a modern day version of the "catch me if you can" true story film, staring Tom Hanks and Leonardo DiCaprio. Anyway he managed to BS his way all the way to the room where surgeons scrub up / clean themselves / decontaminate themselves, before going into the actual operating room itself... ...the REAL surgeons noticed that he wasn't washing his hands properly (again, they are prepping themselves for surgery here)... ...then they realised that he didn't know how to wash his hands properly...like a surgeon would...before scrubbing up... ...then shit hit the fan... ...it ended up in court and rhe court case was reported on the news here in Ireland. This was a few years before COVID-19.
@@hermaeusmora2945 Yes, but I'm guessing he had to BS his way threw, to convince them. Because there is already plenty of diversity in our hospitals because third world doctors are cheaper then first world doctors. Having said that, now that you've mentioned it, I wouldn't rule it out, giving into medical malpractice to bend to the PC shame mob. It's not like it would be an isolated innocent. TH-cam moderators keep buying the 20,000 Muslim child groomers in the UK police report, covered by the lotus eaters. We had a gay advocate run for president years ago...and he had said in an interview "I do not believe in the age of consent" then went into rage / how dare you, mode, when he got backlash for it, and pretended that it was "for being GAYYY!!", as opposed to being a pedophile. I could give you more examples, but anyway a family member of mine, who works with children, was one of the many people that still campaigned for him after the pedophile stuff came out. As I mentioned this a pedophile facilitator is fucking with my phone to cover up child rape cultures like this.
Watching these mad lad videos is really getting me into reading more about history. It's a lot of fun learning about these people and they give me a lot of cool things to talk about when I hangout with my friends. I checked your videos to see if you covered the legend of Burford Pusser yet and I didn't see him on there so I know he belongs on your list of madlads. He was a Tennessee sheriff who took on the Dixie mafia and literally beat them with a big stick.
How is it you're going to ask why it took the man so long to go to the doctor when you JUST said that he was going to have to take a dirty scalpel to the scrotum in a world with no anesthesia? I think you answered that question already.
Yeah sure there was a man with worse problem a few years ago, his were practically on the floor. Doctors did nothing for him I believe. Black dude. His testicles wore a hooded jumper it was that bad
The doctor told her a procedure had to be done and didnt see her till her procedure? Sounds like the current nhs now, love the fact they kept the tradition up
I had a very serious accident back when I was just a wee lil kid. I was almost crushed by a taxi while it was getting ready to drive forward. I was unaware that it was running and got reversed over by the vehicle. I tried crawling my way out of it, but the vehicle began do drive forward while my head was almost out. long story short, good thing the driver noticed me before anything very bad happened. Dad rushed in to help and demanded to be driven to the nearedt hospital. I was bleeding profusely from my head and left arm. From what I remember, my arm was almost torn off and my right ear was 95% torn off. I didn't feel any pain due to me probably having my adrenaline kicking in. I just felt very warm due to my blood coming out of my open wounds. While on surgery, I can only remember that I was lucid and can't open my eyes for some reason, but I can still see and feel the bright and hot operating light thingy. I can confirm that they used anesthesia at this point since when they were stitching back my ear and arm back again, it felt ticklish and I was giggling. The surgeons who did the op on me said that I was the toughest/happiest boy they ever operated on XD I still have these scars on my arm and the back of my ear, reminding me of the whole ordeal. the metal braces thing that popped out of my arm was a bit scary, but at least I'm alive :)
Fairly new subscriber here. Just wanted to say, Love the way you tell a story and it cracks me up that you always seam like your about to break out laughing at any minute. classic...🤣
Medicine has come so far in just short amount of time. My mom had to have emergency surgery last night on a ruptured bowel. She seems to be doing much better now but my dad and I were just talking that not long ago she would have been a goner. I would have died about 3 or 4 times over myself.
Our town hospital was named Pleasant Valley Hospital a.k.a. ( Death Valley Shithole ) until 1914. Then with modern technology some people survive the place.
keep it up Count! I love history. Especially your particular brand of weird and often overlooked stuff. Your channel is a dream come true for me. Your a natural story teller, and I'll continue to recommend you to all who will listen.
Seriously, I woke up during surgery once. I can't imagine being held down. My surgeon was around 2 minutes away from finishing. There is a reason why you are given a drug during general anesthesia that makes you forget so even if you woke up, you likely wouldn't remember it. I was under lighter anesthesia for my optic nerve surgery.
@@realtalunkarku morphine is great but not when it wears off. I was given versed to go to sleep and woke up when they were stitching my eyeball back in place. Very unpleasant to have to sit through the last few minutes feeling the stitching and being berated by the nurse for raising my hand and saying I feel that. She claimed I was going to contaminate the surgical field, I would disturb the doctor, it was too late to give me something for the pain, I just had to deal with it. And I'm someone with a high tolerance for pain, I just wanted to let them know I was awake because I had no idea at what point I woke up. It could have been right when they started for all I knew. Once she stopped bitching & told me, I could deal with the rest. Not a good memory no matter how many drugs they gave me after
@@lisapop5219 reminds me of my epidural. It was at a teaching hospital so I got wheeled into a room with 20 or so people. I asked who’s sticking me. And a grey haired guy stepped out of a crowd of kids and I said good. But then he started sticking me while not preparing me or asking if the local kicked in yet and I flinched. He yelled don’t move and quickly finished and I started saying you mothe….. the local kicked in and I woke up in recovery. Could’ve been paralyzed. I hated hospitals before. Now I’ll die before I have to go back. XD
Lisa I hope you sued the gas man into penury. The only way that could happen is that the vapouriser was out of the liquid, halothane, ethrane, isoflurane, desflurane etc. That is a sacking and struck off the register offence.
If anyone is in and around London, more specifically the Shard Area, if you walk up the road between the shard and Guys St Thomas Hospital You'll pass a small church looking building. It's called the Old Operating Theater and is one of these old early Victorian theaters, it still has the seats and operating table. In the back there's a room full of preserved amputations in formaldehyde too! Worth a visit if you are in the area.
You should check out the tv series the Knick. Turn of the century medicine in America and the dawn on electricity. Very similar to the “hygiene” you have described for old Scottish medicine.
That show was great. Sucks that it got cancelled. It should've had one more season or at least a few more episodes to wrap a few things up. I badly want a similar show set in Britain in Liston's time.
Damn Dankula, gotta thank you for this one. I've had so many internal surgeries and resulting complications I've lost count, got another one scheduled for the 28th and haven't been able to shake a bad feeling about it until now. Thanks for that.
My country also had a famous physician who had similiar pioneering practices in surgery, Ignaz Semmelweis (Hungarian: Semmelweis Ignác), and he was active during the same time period, though a generation later, as Liston. Semmelweis started implementing new hygiene standards in the midwives' wards due to pregnant women's high mortality rate in hospitals, and of course they died because of terrible hygiene. I wonder if the two had met and/or if Semmelweis took his ideas from him. He was later named the saviour of pregnant women.
I have a suggestion for a madlad, Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart, otherwise known as "The Unkillable Soldier". He fought in multiple wars, including WWI, and lost an eye, a hand, and had more bullet shrapnel in his body than the average murder victim in Chicago, and at the end of the wars he'd be like "Well that was quite fun, can't wait for the next one."
Hippocrates would also be a great Mad Lad. The father of medicine and the oath that bares his name. Also the Canadian Trucker Convoy should get a Mad Lad fer sure. It would be well deserved.
Mad lads are historic not political, I don't think the truckers fit in the mad lads thing. He basically tells facts you can't tell facts about politics
@@Guitar-Dog Don't mind him, his brain is broken from self induced mediatrauma. He's really out here suggesting movie actors get awards for real people doing real things that matter :')
actually having a bunch of people watch your surgeries is still common for medical students i had around 10 or so students watch my ear surgery and the whole group would come with the doctor to check on me after due how uncommon my surgery was
The term operating theater is not used today, but the concept is somewhat still there. There are some operating rooms in medical colleges and universities, as well as hospitals that have viewing areas for doctors and students to learn. Typically the patient has to give permission for people to be in the viewing room due to privacy. The viewing room allows the operating room to stay sterile
It is in the UK, you wrote a big essay there for something that isn't true. I notice there are a lot of serial incorrectors online spouting their psuedo-intellectual shite
LOL showing the patient the leg he just cut off doesn't quite fit the image that was painted at the start of the vid of taking great care to not cause distress to a patient xD.
I highly suggest watching The Knick. It is an AWESOME historical series about the Knickerbocker Hospital in New York City in the year 1900. It stars Clive Owen - who is amazing. It only has 2 seasons and was cut short way too early. It is one series I would definitely like to see come back.
He should do one on Lope de Aguirre, who called himself the Wrath of God. He betrayed Spain , took over an expedition in the Andes and attempted to find El Dorado to establish his own Empire lmao
@Sisyphos der II. Herzog needs an AML, it'd be easily an hour long. Kinski was a vile cunt unfortunately, the way he treated his daughters was abhorrent
I see an alert for a new Mad Lads and I know I am going to hear one heck of a story and also well-presented by the Count and this did not disappoint. I had read about Robert Liston in some compendium on eccentricity (published my Rhino Publications?). I would say that you presented him in three dimensions as a person, and someone who fit more towards our modern medical ideals. Thanks, Danks!
As someone who as recently had my leg amputated I can honestly say I am so grateful for what the surgeon's and the patients of the past had to endure because if they hadn't I would've declined the operation
Don't know if you'll ever read this, but check out the story of Buford Pusser. He was a Tennessee lawman that waged a war against the mob with a 2x4. The "Dwayne Johnson" Rock played him in Walking Tall
My favorite thing is from Amazon's "Grand Tour" where they said that a Scottish person Invented the US Navy. Which is amazing. And not wrong in the slightest.
Huh, funny thing. There was a hungarian doctor in the same time frame as Liston called Ignaz Semmelweis, known as "the savior of mothers". He had the same mentality, cleaning medical equipment to decrease the chance of death.
Isn't he the guy who recognised the link between scarlet fever and dirty hands in the delivery room, so had his colleagues bath their hands in chlorine? If I remember rightly, after his death, they stopped the washing and the deaths went up
One of my teachers told me about him, it was back in the time were the concept of "miasma" was believed and pregnant women were dying because the fucking dumbasses surgeons would come into the delivery room after diddling corpses for study without washing their hands, the absolute Chad that was Semmelweis, being unable to prove the connection between the 2 things took a knife, cut into a corpse and said that he would die after doing this, before cutting himself. He did die and when germ theory came around he got a statue in the hospital he worked at, what a legend
@@rocksteadyska6933 Childbed fever, at least that's how we called it. And yea it seems most did reject his advice of cleaning equipment for roughly 20 years after his death, gonna admit I didn't recall that part.
1:40 that dog bark in the intro keeps making me pull out my headphones and check if my own dog isn't doing something stupid again. I've watched Dank for some time now, and it still catches me off guard.
When I was a kid the lines of "Oh, it's not gonna hurt that much" or "I'm gonna be real gentle" where not just making the pain worse, I would associate them with utter hell and torture, and of course them being absolute lies and anyone uttering those and similar lines to not be trustworthy. Nurses and doctors who warned me that something could, would or might hurt like hell not only did a much better job, knowing what I'd be getting into made it easier to deal with the pain. Being honest instead of minimizing what would be ahead gives psychological ease and an actual frame of reference. The lie makes it incomprehensible. Maybe the doctor being honest with you is also building trust which also helps deal with the pain inflicted in a procedure, because you know that technically the doctor is on your side; a liar is never on your side and what do you know what else he or she might do?
I had my pancreas out a few years ago and one of the professors here in the north west of England had a bedside manner which could be described as.... lacking I'll say....
If you want to see an old school theatre like dank mentioned, go to the Old Garret near Guys hospital London. It's a medical museum. I went when I was training to become an operating department practitioner. The specimen jars will make your skin crawl.
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Thanks for having standards dankula. Love your content. 👍
The samurai of Ukraine next please
@Count the Dankulas, YOU'RE HANGING THAT METAL PICTURE CROOKED AF! AGHHH!!
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For the record. Telling patients that the operation won't hurt; more often, has them rate the experience less painful than "Prepare your soul for death."
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If I was a surgeon, I would _TOTALLY_ say "prepare your soul for death" as people go under.
@@oz_jones if you did that to patients in modern times, you'd most likely be sued but you're definitely getting reprimanded by the hospital. Joking with patients when they go under is seen as a fun experience for everybody but, at least where i live, there are strict rules on what topics you can use, and potentially scaring someone right before their procedure is a big no no.
I thought it was the opposite. Preparing for something super painful makes the experience less painfull, and thinking it will be painless will make the pain more potent because you're not expecting it.
So turns out, Robert Liston is indirectely referenced in one of my favorite old Disney movies - Atlantis. When you first get introduced to Joshua Sweet the medical officer, he pulls out a massive saw and says the catalog he got it from said it could saw through a femur in 28 seconds - Liston's personal record for a complete leg amputation.
I remember that in the movie, but I never knew that's what he was talking about.
The more you know huh?
Shit! I thought that was just a one-off gag but a reference to Dr. Liston!? :O
"I'm bettin' I can cut that time in half!"
Most underrated Disney movie!
Imagine medicine being so bad it's actually considered the equivalent of a hot take at the time to say "causing pain and suffering to a patient is cruel and unethical"
indeed hold up
Unfortunately. The idea it's unethical to cause pain and suffering in medicine is actually a failure of medicine.
It leads to less effective medical practice to minimise suffering and putting DNR's on people without consent or even informing them if it may cause said suffering to know.
So a positive for bleeding hearts, a negative if your heart is bleeding.
Literally no different to today lmfao...
really hasn't changed much if you consider how they are forcing people to take an extremely unsafe and completely ineffective "vaccine"
the doctors who spoke out against it got cancelled, nothing has changed
Nothings changed.
"Oh no! It appears the patient has died!"
That little bit had me chuckling.
Surgeon:"Oh no! Anyway..."
I nearly choked to death on my coffee upon him going on how medical treatment was done in the past and hearing that got me laughing.
I love that people in ye olden days used the "Never trust a skinny chef" logic with the blood on surgeon's aprons.
Dude probably just got done bone sawing through an artery but the plebeians are like "the consummate professional"
didn't worry ma, look how bloody his tools are, smell that good ol hospital stink all around? you're in good hands! I'll be watching....good luck
@@WhuDhat well having an audience for surgeries was a thing at one point.
Edit: wrote this before i watched all of it, he brings up that people would watch.
Well to be fair if you got to cut my leg off without anaesthetic. I'd rather a fucker that was good and quick at it then a noob that was freaking out at the sight of blood!
@@jameskazd9951 - Yes, they charge high prices for that.
well, technically he was a professional :P
As a biology student, really happy to see this one, Dank! There's a reason why Liston's life is taught in microbiology class and not the lives of those who dissed him. I will never get over the image of Liston being deemed a crazy person because he had the audacity to suggest that surgeons washed their hands. 😂
I can only image how prodigal he'd be today with modern medicine at his disposal. He'd possibly have the potential to be the greatest surgeon to live.
Pre-med path? Goodluck kid 🍻 If you ever happen to be in Tennessee and need a PA hit me up. Love to work for a Doctor who watches Dank 😂
I'm still surprise that those baseless myth of 300% mortality rate is still spreading after centuries
This guy needs a movie, great dark comedy material.
_Gone in 60 Seconds_ : a film about Liston doing a double leg amputation.
@@harbl99 hahahahah Nicolas Cage was would be my choice of actor as well!
Must be a Cronenbergian horror flick!!!
Imagine it being directed by Tarantino, that would be awesome
@@BarryMckockinah i'd Say its more of a Guy Richie or another Cornetto film
The fact that Knox and Liston overlap and you did them far enough apart it feels like a callback to season 1 from season 4 is fuckin baller.
knox?
nvm, remembered
batte of the Robs
"This yankee dodge beats mesmerizam hollow" is probably the greatest sentence uttered by a doctor.
What is even supposed to mean? It is a GLORIOUS string of words though!
@@dslbroski4922 I think that's just old timey speak for "Damn, hypnosis ain't shit compared to this!"
@@dslbroski4922 Dodge = a trick, usually now used in the sense of "business" or "racket". Yankee because the first guy to try to use ether was an American dentist. Hollow as an adverb = "completely", although I had to look that one up. Mesmerism, well Dank explained that one.
Good song name.
@@thetweefirebug Worth noting, mesmerism and hypnosis aren't the same thing. Hypnosis is actually used even in modern times, and has a lot more to do with guiding attention at a subconscious level. It is used for psychological problems more often than physical, but it is used in pain management and has been used in smaller surgeries as recently as the last century. Under optimal conditions hypnosis can remove the sense of pain as well as anesthetic, but it's more like how when you cut yourself it sometimes doesn't hurt until you look at it. Most of the time it helps in a way closer to laughing gas, so maybe pulling a tooth but definitely not my first choice for amputation. Unlike anesthetic, which blocks the signals from being sent, hypnosis manages pain by convincing your brain to ignoring it, so of course it only blocks pain up to a certain threshold. Mesmerism is that, with the addition of "animal magnetism" as it was called (aka, the BS/"force" part). The whole reason doctors used it was that it did work better than nothing, it just didn't work for any of the reasons that they thought and was outclassed by better options.
i am slowly piecing together the culture and history of Scotland based on Dankula's back handed remarks and insults about certain parts of Scotland
just wait until he talks about scumbernald
I'm American Irish I already have a fair grasp of loving everything an everyone half the time an hating everything and everyone the other half.
Another madlad originating from Scotland would be Thomas Cochrane. The man is a naval legend for his cunning on the high seas, and his exploits are so outlandish that would make pirates of the Caribbean look tame in comparison!
Ive read about him. That is an insane mad lad story for sure!
Aka the sea wolf
Also John Paul jones
@@giovannicervantes2053 the UFC fighter
@@danthegamechanger3855 no the captain of the revolutionary War that went full pirate and as a bonus he was Scottish to supplement the navy of the new us he decided to roll up to England and Scotland and raid towns and steal boats and he was the reason we have the modern us flag
I've never been so glad for a nazi pug. You were born for this, CD.
Amen
I fucking died at “leg amputation speed run… no glitch.” 😂😂
tool assisted
Any %
@@SlopedOtter *reaches to 90% of the bone
*TWISTS AND RIPS THE REST OFF MANUALLY LIKE A BRANCH
@@themaxterz0169
Liston: "WOOO! A new PB!"
so he used zips
Patients often got booze to get drunk and wealthy people took opium tincture (Laudanum), which made things less horrible but still very painful. Ether and later chloroform were true miracles and they originally used it on pretty much every birth and dental work for people who could pay it.
The doctors who took random promising chemical to get new anaesthesia drugs should receive an own episode
The ironic thing is that alcohol would just make matters worse, because it thins the blood. You would have a better chance of enduring the pain and living through the shock, but a much higher chance of just bleeding to death anyway.
Yeah, id imagine they have some fun stories 🤣🤣🤣
Humphry Davey (yes, Faraday's mentor) made a gas chamber to get high on nitrous oxide and kept a journal where he wrote down his experiences. It's a pity that he never realised to potential of its pain-numbing capabilities.
@@hajo5400 and to think, all it probably would have taken was for him to do something clumsy and remember that it hadn't hurt once he sobered up 🤣🤣
They also hit people with mallets to knock them out.
11:22 “surgeons were fucking dicks”. As someone in the medical field, this still rings kinda true. Half of surgeons I’ve worked with are really nice and the other half are dicks
Completely agree
It use to be 99% of surgeons
Hunters gonna hunt, butchers want to cut. I remember the glisten in my surgeons eye before he cut me. He bragged that he had 3k surgeries all successful. All I could think was you have to fail sometime hope it’s not me. It wasn’t.
ODP here, can confirm that surgeons invariably have a God complex. Hence the joke
What's the difference between a consultant surgeon and God?
God knows that he's not a consultant.
@@thephantomraspberryblower2675 It's interesting. I wonder if being a surgeon causes you to have a God complex, since you literally can decide if the patient lives or dies, or if people with god complex are more likely to end up as surgeons.
"Oh, you don't want to be operated on?"
>locates closet
>rips door off
>refuses to elaborate
>begins operation
Imagine having surgery and the last thing you see before you pass out is this big fella laughing at you with a fuck off knife in one hand and your severed leg in the other, what a lad
Outlast prequel
That was after waking up
“ a big fuckoff knife” is one of my favorite phrases
@@lindboknifeandtool what about a big fuckoff leg?
@@Neo2266. third leg??
Had "awake surgery" once where they told me "oh all you need is some lidocain"
I found out that i'm resistant to lidocain. I could feel what was happening and boy, let me tell you, I thought my surgeon pooped her pants when I said "Well. That hurt."
Really rolling the dice there. If ya know what I mean lol
Found out I’m resistant at the ortho. I’ll take that one over finding out in the surgeries I’ve had. Two back surgeries and a craniotomy. I was lucid and the local hadn’t kicked in for my epidural tho. That shot was rough.
I'm resistant to local anesthesia too. Found out while having a tooth pulled recently. It didn't hurt until about half way through, then it got ROUGH. Afterwards the dentist said "this has never happened to me before".... I was like: This happened to ME not YOU!
@@chemistryofquestionablequa6252 I found out the same way too that I'm very resistant to anaesthetics, topical and otherwise, and also nitrous oxide as well. I had a wisdom tooth whose roots had tentacled into my jaw. The very persistent dentist, and then his veteran colleague who came in to help, tried for 2 and a half hours to get the tooth out, bit by bit. I asked for another freezing needle twice, and at one point stopped them so I could take a steadying breath, and then told them to proceed. I was a bit loopy, but lucid the entire time. They had to increase the nitrous at least twice just to get me the little bit sedated that I was. The older dentist at one point had his foot on the side of the chair and was wrenching my head around. I still have a numb spot on my cheek from the nerve damage he did.
I can relate a least a bit to people from history that had to have surgery, because I know first hand what it's like to be aware and able to feel when a procedure was being done. Probably one of the time most traumatic things I have ever gone through.
@@WhyDoBabiesStareAtMe your experience sounds way worse than mine. Facial/dental pain is no joke! I have had chronic testicular pain for more than 15 years and have a high pain tolerance, but I had tears streaming down my cheeks during that extraction.
I’ve actually had a leg cut off without any pain meds, just knocked out so when I woke up I got the legit full effect of having my leg cut off and I promise you. It’s nowhere near like having a tooth pulled.. the only way I can possibly describe the pain is well, it’s like having your goddamn leg sawed off. All I remember was screaming and crying at the same time while they administered nerve blockers then they hit me with ketamine and the doctors and nurses turned into cosmo and Wanda balloons 😂
I had my back operated on in 2010 and I too had a lot of pain. The doctor offered me some morphine but I refused because I was afraid of becoming addicted to opioids. So because I wanted to "tough it out" I spent the next few days sitting there sobbing.
When my bandages were replaced I'm pretty sure my screaming convinced the rest of the pediatric intensive care unit that I was being murdered.
I once knew a lass with one leg. Eileen was her name and yes, I did come on Eileen.
@@daaveedandersonaroni5347 So if she were Asian would her name have been Eireen? Lol
Jesus Christ. why did they not give you pain meds? even if you didn't want them? also good luck with rehab, I'm transitioning to a wheelchair and it's a big adjustment.
Had a plate put in my arm because of a downhill long boarding accident and they gave me fentanyl. That stuff feels great
I didn't realise that the Surgeon Simulator speedrunning community had such a prestigious history.
Really makes you think how many sociopaths back in those days became surgeons to torture poor bastards.
Sociopath or a psychopath(I mix one of the other) makes for a great surgeon. In one of the books I read, author was talking with plethora of psychopats from two sides of the spectrum: the murdery ones and the ones in law/economy/medicine fields. One of the person he spoken with was a surgeon and he was more efficient than other because he treated humans like a challenge and a machine to fix. Ofc there was no torturing since you can't really operate on the open heart while someone is conscious apart from the brazillian gore vids ofc.
Or to this day ...
@@chillax319 sociopaths are 4Chan users and Psychopaths are just robots in flesh
@@chillax319 Yup, surgeon is one of the top 10 careers having psychopaths. I don't remember at what number the article I read put them at. But CEO was definitely #1.
@@chillax319 This is true in medicine, but in economics sociopaths and psychopaths tend to make terrible financial advisors. For all they're lauded for being cold and calculating they're also incredibly brash and impulsive.
That guy who knocked fuck out of the teacher and took the body regardless of anything else is the absolute definition of an Honourable Man.
“Those minds were a little bit unhinged” ah, so basically normal Scottish people
After losing my leg to an exploding Israeli vending machine several years back, I approve this amputee-inclusive episode.
If I was you I’d call myself two legged duke. When folks ask why when they look at your missing leg you can look at your crotch and wink. XD
PLEASE elaborate
Well that comment was a Rollercoaster from start to finish
Machines fight back, it got fed up with you kicking it for free shit all those times
@@SlopedOtter The vending machine heard someone speaking Arabic and thus exploded as a precautionary measure.
A surgeon having a 300% mortality rate is hilarious.
EDIT: Also... HOW THE HELL DO YOU CUT SOMEONE'S TESTICLES OFF DURING A LEG AMPUTATION?
Depends on where you amputate the leg. If you amputate at the knee it's very difficult to do so. If you amputate the full leg, you're awfully close to the crown jewels.
Could have been cutting just below the hip and the knife he used was double edged. So he could had come back too far while trying to go fast. Surgical knives are scary sharp, so it would be easy to cut delicate skin without realizing it until it was too late.
Whoops I slipped!
"Oh, you know how it goes... it's kind of like popping those air blisters on packing material... it's just so satisfying! Ya, start at the foot and just can't stop!"
Takes one hell of a swing
My daughter was just telling me about this man today. For some reason they are learning about people like this in history. This man's passion for cutting up bodies turned into saving tons of lives.
Can you imagine being a 18th century surgeon just running around doing whatever surgeries you want to do with a plauge mask on screaming I AM THE CURE and getting paid well for it, just heaven
So Fauci?
Tried to be a black market doctor but it's just not the same.
@@zaadbaad541 yeah it was cool until I spent 10 years in a Mexican jail before escaping. Would not do it again
*19th
@@andrewthomson Pretty much. "I AM THE SCIENCE!!!!111!1!!!!!11!1!"
Ah yes a time in history where "oopsie daisy" was a good excuse and not an immediate revoking of a medical license
Still happens around the world. Alotta doctors and nurses can fuck up and quite litterly end lives, and just go "oops, sorry" and move on with their career. Depends where you are, but fucking up usually doesnt get your license revoked, its gotta be a really bad fuck up that effects PR.
Nowadays you can sue over that kinda stuff
Back then going to the hospital was riskier than modern day homeopathy
Did you know, a mother kissing a wound to ease the pain was something those doctors and surgeons would do? They'd just give your ruptured spleen a good 'ol smooch and you'd be right as rain :)
Source: Me, a Pioneer in Misinformation.
😂😂😂
In football (soccer) they just have a wet sponge and as soon as that touches their leg every booboo is healed and those compound fractures to reverse snap back into place
@@bigsteve6729 This explains a lot actually.
My source is that I made it the fuck up!
Source: Amy D. Tup
When I was about 7 my surgeon lied to me and told me "no cutting" in a heavy Arabic accent shortly before my toe was to be moved to my hand. He was a fantastic surgeon and a very compassionate individual, and I was not stupid despite being 7. I used to have panic attacks before surgeries, the anaesthetic terrified me, but it was still comforting to know that my surgeon cared about my mental well-being in addition to his profession. Also, he was probably tired of having to wait for his nurses wrestle a panicking middle schooler until the kid finally took a breath and passed out.
Toe... moved to a... hand? What?
@@oz_jones sounds crazy but toes are, rarely mind you, used to replace digits on the hand. I'm only a student but I've only heard of it being done in the case of thumb amputation/birth aberration so as to give the patient an opposable digit. Pretty cool stuff. :D
@@oz_jones yes, I'm feeling that anecdote was focused on the wrong part of the story!
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, surgeon was good, but we need backstory on the 'toe-thumbs'!"
My surgeon's assistant was smoking cigarette in operating room while his superior was cutting my SCT tumor out.
In 21st century.
I’d rather have that then an agitated surgeon
Lmao at least he ain’t stressing 😭
India rocks
@@nothingforyouhere418 Superpooper 2020
My mum trained as a Nurse in the 60's,she was at a lecture buy a respected consultant, His opening words were "Ladies we are here today because of the deaths of millions, Medicine is a learning process!
P.s He ended with "Don't put anything bigger than your left elbow in your ears.
FERK!
But my elbow wouldn't fit in my ear?
@@Guitar-Dog surgery though......
I thought the saying was, "don't put anything 'smaller' than your elbow in your ears". For the simple reason, one could easily puncture their eardrum. 👍🙃
I love that Liston has become more discussed on TH-cam. An incredible character.
Robert Liston, the first guy to experience the true irony of someone saying, "Thank God!" after one of his successful surgeries. Legend.
"That good ol hospital stink"
Excuse me, what the fuck? Lol
Really appreciate Dankula’s diverse catalog of mad lads. Cult leaders, robbers, and doctors to name a few. Always leaving these videos satisfied.
Still need Jim Jones and David Koresh for the cultist category. And we need the latter to remind everyone that the government hates you and will gladly trample on your rights
"prepare your soul for death" was unjustifiably uttered by many "qualified doctors" 2020-2022
" You're a loose cannon, Liston! I'm taking you out of practice! "
A TV show about this era in medicine would be fantastic. Read "The Butchering Art" in the meantime. It covers Liston, the introduction of ether, and Joseph Lister's efforts to make cleanliness and disinfection a thing in medicine. It's crazy to think other surgeons scoffed at washing their hands or laughed at germ theory.
Med student here. Very interesting video papa Dankula. When hearing that Liston was 6 feet 2 (a very abnormal size for his era) made me wonder if he suffered from Marfan syndrome. This could also explain the aortic aneurism which is a very common finding in this genetic disease.
tbh saving patients lives by simply washing your hands sounded probably as far fetched to victorian surgeons as healing them using 'The Force' sounds to us
I love how eloquently he calls his fellow surgeons incompetent idiots in his writing
This right here is a true madlad. In this series you've covered assholes, big name criminals, people who raised their middle finger to some system in an insane event, but this guy helped with the survivability of our damn species while raising his middle finger. The closest objective truth to life is that it must survive and spread, and this guy improved the statistics of that equation.
Mad Lads is one of the best series on YT. The Count sure can spin a yarn.
I'm forever grateful to the algorithm for bringing me here.
“I know that very often it seems that the rapid march of progress is a huge net negative on the spiritual well-being of mankind, but before you take that little Ted pill…”
10/10
A good madlad candidate would be Ignaz Semmelweis, he was another pioneer of hand washing in hospitals, but was so badly mocked by his colleagues he had a nervous breakdown and was committed to an asylum, where he later died.
He was described as the ‘saviour of mothers’ due to his initial success in one hospital.
Here in Ireland, a foreign immigrant, managed to fake documents and a CV claiming that he was a surgeon.
Then he managed to BS his way threw the interview. I think he just found out beforehand what to say, like a modern day version of the "catch me if you can" true story film, staring Tom Hanks and Leonardo DiCaprio.
Anyway he managed to BS his way all the way to the room where surgeons scrub up / clean themselves / decontaminate themselves, before going into the actual operating room itself...
...the REAL surgeons noticed that he wasn't washing his hands properly (again, they are prepping themselves for surgery here)...
...then they realised that he didn't know how to wash his hands properly...like a surgeon would...before scrubbing up...
...then shit hit the fan...
...it ended up in court and rhe court case was reported on the news here in Ireland.
This was a few years before COVID-19.
Jeeze
Holy shit. That is the exact kind of thing we should all be worried about with this incessant focus on "diversity" over meritocracy.
@@hermaeusmora2945 Yes, but I'm guessing he had to BS his way threw, to convince them. Because there is already plenty of diversity in our hospitals because third world doctors are cheaper then first world doctors.
Having said that, now that you've mentioned it, I wouldn't rule it out, giving into medical malpractice to bend to the PC shame mob. It's not like it would be an isolated innocent.
TH-cam moderators keep buying the 20,000 Muslim child groomers in the UK police report, covered by the lotus eaters.
We had a gay advocate run for president years ago...and he had said in an interview "I do not believe in the age of consent" then went into rage / how dare you, mode, when he got backlash for it, and pretended that it was "for being GAYYY!!", as opposed to being a pedophile.
I could give you more examples, but anyway a family member of mine, who works with children, was one of the many people that still campaigned for him after the pedophile stuff came out.
As I mentioned this a pedophile facilitator is fucking with my phone to cover up child rape cultures like this.
Think I remember this, was he African
@@solidsoup5027 maybe you're thinking of that interpreter who didn't know sign language but did it on TV lol
I literally listen to every Mad Lads, regardless, just for the 1997 WWF Pump Segment.
Then some metal.
This needs to be made into a film. A dark humorous scottish film like, in the style of trainspotting.
“I chose something else” XD
Guy Ritchie/Tim Burton minus the guns
@@viscountrainbows6452 Well now they had firearms back then, you could still have *some* guns.
Watching these mad lad videos is really getting me into reading more about history. It's a lot of fun learning about these people and they give me a lot of cool things to talk about when I hangout with my friends. I checked your videos to see if you covered the legend of Burford Pusser yet and I didn't see him on there so I know he belongs on your list of madlads. He was a Tennessee sheriff who took on the Dixie mafia and literally beat them with a big stick.
How is it you're going to ask why it took the man so long to go to the doctor when you JUST said that he was going to have to take a dirty scalpel to the scrotum in a world with no anesthesia? I think you answered that question already.
Yeah sure there was a man with worse problem a few years ago, his were practically on the floor. Doctors did nothing for him I believe. Black dude. His testicles wore a hooded jumper it was that bad
“And that’s why I’m not a doctor.”
I cracked up, man. Great mad lad.
The doctor told her a procedure had to be done and didnt see her till her procedure? Sounds like the current nhs now, love the fact they kept the tradition up
Just staying safe, you understand. There's plenty more paypigs where she came from, a few misdiagnoses wouldn't hurt.
I had a very serious accident back when I was just a wee lil kid. I was almost crushed by a taxi while it was getting ready to drive forward. I was unaware that it was running and got reversed over by the vehicle. I tried crawling my way out of it, but the vehicle began do drive forward while my head was almost out. long story short, good thing the driver noticed me before anything very bad happened. Dad rushed in to help and demanded to be driven to the nearedt hospital. I was bleeding profusely from my head and left arm. From what I remember, my arm was almost torn off and my right ear was 95% torn off. I didn't feel any pain due to me probably having my adrenaline kicking in. I just felt very warm due to my blood coming out of my open wounds.
While on surgery, I can only remember that I was lucid and can't open my eyes for some reason, but I can still see and feel the bright and hot operating light thingy. I can confirm that they used anesthesia at this point since when they were stitching back my ear and arm back again, it felt ticklish and I was giggling. The surgeons who did the op on me said that I was the toughest/happiest boy they ever operated on XD
I still have these scars on my arm and the back of my ear, reminding me of the whole ordeal. the metal braces thing that popped out of my arm was a bit scary, but at least I'm alive :)
Fairly new subscriber here. Just wanted to say, Love the way you tell a story and it cracks me up that you always seam like your about to break out laughing at any minute. classic...🤣
Glad Danks getting new subscribers I imagined it was all Scottish folk subscribing
It's sort of criminal that this man did so much and yet most people only know of him from that triple mortality urban legend.
"look at that dirty bastard over there, he must be a doctor"
😳
Medicine has come so far in just short amount of time. My mom had to have emergency surgery last night on a ruptured bowel. She seems to be doing much better now but my dad and I were just talking that not long ago she would have been a goner. I would have died about 3 or 4 times over myself.
Our town hospital was named Pleasant Valley Hospital a.k.a. ( Death Valley Shithole ) until 1914. Then with modern technology some people survive the place.
keep it up Count! I love history. Especially your particular brand of weird and often overlooked stuff. Your channel is a dream come true for me. Your a natural story teller, and I'll continue to recommend you to all who will listen.
Seriously, I woke up during surgery once. I can't imagine being held down. My surgeon was around 2 minutes away from finishing. There is a reason why you are given a drug during general anesthesia that makes you forget so even if you woke up, you likely wouldn't remember it. I was under lighter anesthesia for my optic nerve surgery.
Ive had a few minor surprises morphine is pretty great
@@realtalunkarku morphine is great but not when it wears off. I was given versed to go to sleep and woke up when they were stitching my eyeball back in place. Very unpleasant to have to sit through the last few minutes feeling the stitching and being berated by the nurse for raising my hand and saying I feel that. She claimed I was going to contaminate the surgical field, I would disturb the doctor, it was too late to give me something for the pain, I just had to deal with it. And I'm someone with a high tolerance for pain, I just wanted to let them know I was awake because I had no idea at what point I woke up. It could have been right when they started for all I knew. Once she stopped bitching & told me, I could deal with the rest. Not a good memory no matter how many drugs they gave me after
@@lisapop5219 i feel for you i do , i just never had that . They had me on a drip especially the one where my twins were disentangleed and stiched up
@@lisapop5219 reminds me of my epidural. It was at a teaching hospital so I got wheeled into a room with 20 or so people. I asked who’s sticking me. And a grey haired guy stepped out of a crowd of kids and I said good. But then he started sticking me while not preparing me or asking if the local kicked in yet and I flinched. He yelled don’t move and quickly finished and I started saying you mothe….. the local kicked in and I woke up in recovery. Could’ve been paralyzed. I hated hospitals before. Now I’ll die before I have to go back. XD
Lisa I hope you sued the gas man into penury. The only way that could happen is that the vapouriser was out of the liquid, halothane, ethrane, isoflurane, desflurane etc.
That is a sacking and struck off the register offence.
If anyone is in and around London, more specifically the Shard Area, if you walk up the road between the shard and Guys St Thomas Hospital You'll pass a small church looking building. It's called the Old Operating Theater and is one of these old early Victorian theaters, it still has the seats and operating table. In the back there's a room full of preserved amputations in formaldehyde too!
Worth a visit if you are in the area.
You should check out the tv series the Knick.
Turn of the century medicine in America and the dawn on electricity.
Very similar to the “hygiene” you have described for old Scottish medicine.
That show was great. Sucks that it got cancelled. It should've had one more season or at least a few more episodes to wrap a few things up. I badly want a similar show set in Britain in Liston's time.
Damn Dankula, gotta thank you for this one. I've had so many internal surgeries and resulting complications I've lost count, got another one scheduled for the 28th and haven't been able to shake a bad feeling about it until now.
Thanks for that.
How'd it go?
@@ernstjunger714 they ate his balls and he died
His brute strength. His legendary dexterity. Mans had a quality build.
My country also had a famous physician who had similiar pioneering practices in surgery, Ignaz Semmelweis (Hungarian: Semmelweis Ignác), and he was active during the same time period, though a generation later, as Liston. Semmelweis started implementing new hygiene standards in the midwives' wards due to pregnant women's high mortality rate in hospitals, and of course they died because of terrible hygiene. I wonder if the two had met and/or if Semmelweis took his ideas from him. He was later named the saviour of pregnant women.
Any% aputation speed run.
The man is a legend goddamn!
I have a suggestion for a madlad, Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart, otherwise known as "The Unkillable Soldier". He fought in multiple wars, including WWI, and lost an eye, a hand, and had more bullet shrapnel in his body than the average murder victim in Chicago, and at the end of the wars he'd be like "Well that was quite fun, can't wait for the next one."
Hippocrates would also be a great Mad Lad. The father of medicine and the oath that bares his name. Also the Canadian Trucker Convoy should get a Mad Lad fer sure. It would be well deserved.
Mad lads are historic not political, I don't think the truckers fit in the mad lads thing.
He basically tells facts you can't tell facts about politics
@@Guitar-Dog Don't mind him, his brain is broken from self induced mediatrauma. He's really out here suggesting movie actors get awards for real people doing real things that matter :')
growing up, i had a book called "most gruesome ways to die" and that book was what introduced me to Robert Liston
Gotta be Irish related on Paddy's Day..
Lemme guess, someone related to the Troubles.
@@Labyrinth6000 My car won't start so I better leave it as is...
@@Labyrinth6000 possibly
It’s not, expecting Gerry adams or Michael Collins 🙄
Nope, Scottish!!
actually having a bunch of people watch your surgeries is still common for medical students i had around 10 or so students watch my ear surgery and the whole group would come with the doctor to check on me after due how uncommon my surgery was
Had my epidural viewed by 20 or so kids. It was a circus.
Do how uncommon?
The term operating theater is not used today, but the concept is somewhat still there. There are some operating rooms in medical colleges and universities, as well as hospitals that have viewing areas for doctors and students to learn. Typically the patient has to give permission for people to be in the viewing room due to privacy. The viewing room allows the operating room to stay sterile
Erm it is in the UK. How do I know? I'm an operating department practitioner. There's not one part of the human body I've not seen with my own eyes.
@@thephantomraspberryblower2675 what's the biggest pp you have ever seen?
It's used in Australia too.
It is in the UK, you wrote a big essay there for something that isn't true. I notice there are a lot of serial incorrectors online spouting their psuedo-intellectual shite
@@skelator_ ABlue Whales.
Pish takin wee Neds get daft answers laddie.
Loved this one !!! The best report yet. All along I strongly suspected that Listerine mouth wash was named after him. Lmao
LOL showing the patient the leg he just cut off doesn't quite fit the image that was painted at the start of the vid of taking great care to not cause distress to a patient xD.
I highly suggest watching The Knick. It is an AWESOME historical series about the Knickerbocker Hospital in New York City in the year 1900. It stars Clive Owen - who is amazing. It only has 2 seasons and was cut short way too early. It is one series I would definitely like to see come back.
He should do one on Lope de Aguirre, who called himself the Wrath of God. He betrayed Spain , took over an expedition in the Andes and attempted to find El Dorado to establish his own Empire lmao
Portrayed by Klaus Kinski in a Werner Herzog movie - both pretty mad lads themself.
@Sisyphos der II. Herzog needs an AML, it'd be easily an hour long. Kinski was a vile cunt unfortunately, the way he treated his daughters was abhorrent
@@JoeCasanovax year, that's right...
@@Sisyphos420 Definitely
@@JoeCasanovax I'd love to see a Herzog madlad. Maybe a video on his relationship with Kinski lol
I see an alert for a new Mad Lads and I know I am going to hear one heck of a story and also well-presented by the Count and this did not disappoint. I had read about Robert Liston in some compendium on eccentricity (published my Rhino Publications?). I would say that you presented him in three dimensions as a person, and someone who fit more towards our modern medical ideals. Thanks, Danks!
90% survival is a insanely AMAZING stat for limb removal back then.
As someone who as recently had my leg amputated I can honestly say I am so grateful for what the surgeon's and the patients of the past had to endure because if they hadn't I would've declined the operation
I hope your leg is ok now
1 in 10 deaths with 1800's knowledge and equipment is actually astonishing, its no wonder the guy is a legend.
Don't know if you'll ever read this, but check out the story of Buford Pusser. He was a Tennessee lawman that waged a war against the mob with a 2x4. The "Dwayne Johnson" Rock played him in Walking Tall
I don’t think I’ve ever heard anything funnier than Dank saying “Force healing” in a serious context 😂
41:06 As soon as you started talking about it, I thought hey this sounds like the force haha
I had a piss poor day today and really loved this video Dank. I appreciate it.
My favorite thing is from Amazon's "Grand Tour" where they said that a Scottish person Invented the US Navy.
Which is amazing.
And not wrong in the slightest.
What a great educational mad lad keep up the great work Dank!
They used wooden operating tables as well which are porous, so all the germs etc soaked in to the table after each operation.
Huh, funny thing. There was a hungarian doctor in the same time frame as Liston called Ignaz Semmelweis, known as "the savior of mothers". He had the same mentality, cleaning medical equipment to decrease the chance of death.
Isn't he the guy who recognised the link between scarlet fever and dirty hands in the delivery room, so had his colleagues bath their hands in chlorine? If I remember rightly, after his death, they stopped the washing and the deaths went up
One of my teachers told me about him, it was back in the time were the concept of "miasma" was believed and pregnant women were dying because the fucking dumbasses surgeons would come into the delivery room after diddling corpses for study without washing their hands, the absolute Chad that was Semmelweis, being unable to prove the connection between the 2 things took a knife, cut into a corpse and said that he would die after doing this, before cutting himself. He did die and when germ theory came around he got a statue in the hospital he worked at, what a legend
@@rocksteadyska6933 Childbed fever, at least that's how we called it. And yea it seems most did reject his advice of cleaning equipment for roughly 20 years after his death, gonna admit I didn't recall that part.
1:40 that dog bark in the intro keeps making me pull out my headphones and check if my own dog isn't doing something stupid again. I've watched Dank for some time now, and it still catches me off guard.
I’m never gonna unhear that now
When I was a kid the lines of "Oh, it's not gonna hurt that much" or "I'm gonna be real gentle" where not just making the pain worse, I would associate them with utter hell and torture, and of course them being absolute lies and anyone uttering those and similar lines to not be trustworthy.
Nurses and doctors who warned me that something could, would or might hurt like hell not only did a much better job, knowing what I'd be getting into made it easier to deal with the pain. Being honest instead of minimizing what would be ahead gives psychological ease and an actual frame of reference. The lie makes it incomprehensible. Maybe the doctor being honest with you is also building trust which also helps deal with the pain inflicted in a procedure, because you know that technically the doctor is on your side; a liar is never on your side and what do you know what else he or she might do?
43:30 - I love that you also brought up Liston's legacy :)
I had my pancreas out a few years ago and one of the professors here in the north west of England had a bedside manner which could be described as.... lacking I'll say....
If you want to see an old school theatre like dank mentioned, go to the Old Garret near Guys hospital London. It's a medical museum. I went when I was training to become an operating department practitioner.
The specimen jars will make your skin crawl.
St. Patrick himself
As a previous NHS nurse there are loads of surgical instruments and hospital wards named after Lister. 🤣
"the greatest thing to come out of Edinburgh, is the train to Glasgow."
-every sane person ever
Not only a mad lad but a god damn legend, compassion and vigor. A downright hero.
I wonder how many people were removed from the surgical theater for being too aroused...
*WE ALL KNOW THE NUMBER ISNT ZERO!*