The Day We Made Frankenstein's Monster
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ย. 2024
- When Everett Knowles hitched a ride on a Boston train, he expected to make it home in a few minutes. But the result was the final leg of a medical history journey more than 30,000 years in the making when Eddy Knowles' doctors turned tragedy into a medical miracle.
Eddy's impromptu arm transplant -- humanity's first successful limb re-attachment -- became one of the 20th century's great surgery stories. The path from accident to surgery required an almost impossible set of conditions to line up perfectly, and then it actually had to work. On the day of the accident, the wild scramble to harness expertise and to weigh calculated risks make for an engaging story of science and human ingenuity -- but the truth is that the same exact process of discovery and daring is what forged the centuries of scientific knowledge that Eddy's doctors used to save his arm.
Scientific triumphs and medical miracles happen every day. They just take thousands of generations to be born.
#medical #history #science #popularscience
The fact that all the doctors, surgeons and nurses knew that the conditions were perfect and decided to perform the first surgery of its kind is mind boggling to think about. I can just imagine them seeing the state of the arm, looking at each other and being like “Team, it’s showtime”
“You guys are seeing what I’m seeing right? Like, that’s not a lot of damage. We might actually be able to pull this off.”
@its_loosha kinda shocked that it didn't report them as excited and giddy. They're just like yep we're gonna do it. Then got to work. Maybe this is one more reason I'm not a doctor. I would have been HOWLING with excitement for everything to align so perfectly that I got to be one of the first to try something so monumental.
@@minacapella8319I feel like when you fight death every day you develop the skills to calmly take on something like this.
It takes some balls to decide such a thing 😅
At 14:15 it's giving me nightmares yo! lol
“Because when you get in a train accident you just get up and stroll back home”. - I mean. Even in the 60s, he was a kid. I’d wager that was all he knew to do as well.
Didn't expect a science video about limb reattachment to make me tear up a little at the end...
It's all in the delivery and music. You can make anything dramatic with the right wording and editing. Conversely, you can make anything scary or goofy or any other emotion. There are some edits of various scenes like that which completely change the atmosphere. It's pretty amusing.
It is mind blowing how nowadays I just hear in the news that you should always bring amputated members to the hospital, if possible in ice to try reattaching them. It is just something they commonly do in hospitals nowadays.
a friend of mine got her ring finger cut off just after her wedding and got it reattached a few hours later like it was nothing
Don't forget not to put it in *direct contact* with the ice. Wrap it, then put frozen veggies or the like around the wrapped body part.
Really helps that we have the knowledge and technology for good wound care and safe, reliable treatment for infections.
It's entirely possible that much of the surgery itself might have been doable in the past, but they probably would have amputated the limb (if still attached) and/or cauterized the wound because it had a better survival rate.
to summarize this whole story in a meme-ish modern headline, it'd be something like "Boy loses arm at age 12, becomes man with authentic crustacean style dexterity."
as literally just like a crab, he has one power arm and one precision arm.
as a medicine student this kind of hisotries makes me so exited, my dad himself is a plastic surgeon that has saved many limbs and as a kid i remember beeing amazed by his stories of how he does it.
This is... so many levels of miraculous. Both for our boy who survived and got his arm mostly back, but for all of modern medicine. And seriously, he went home after THREE WEEKS from the first ARM REATTACHMENT surgery, somewhat before we had a lot of the breakthroughs we currently have for inpatient or outpatient care and recovery, physical therapy, rehab, etc.? And he was PLAYING BASEBALL AND WORKING ON CARS and managed to go until his 60s? Just, so much luck aligning in just the right way.
Immediately improved my mood seeing a clip from YuYu Hakusho being used in the background
Of course the guy can reattach his arm and his lab coat. 2 powers in 1. Is his power limited to fixing his own clothes? If not he could be a very wealthy steamstress.
Huh? That was Yu Yu hakusho (Ghost fighter in my country)? I guess I forgot that episode
These videos are so freaking good. Perfect storytelling, Kevin!
Astar the robot from the war amputees PSA in Canada: I can put my arm back on, but you can't
Eddy Knowles: how about I do anyway
Those PSAs came out too late for Eddy; he did NOT play safe. That said, the War Amps DID exist back then, but they were Canadian, Eddy was not.
Now where did I put my keys…? 🤔
damit dude. this might be the deepest video ive ever seen you make... keep up the good work....
In addition to being a remarkable medical advancement, this story is also a great example of how critical a good sense of community can be for kids in dangerous situations. If he'd been raised on a mantra of 'stranger danger' and hadn't talked to the stranger who asked him what was wrong, he might not have even made it home alive. Same on the side of the man, if he was worried people might assume some malign motive from talking to a random boy walking nearby and hadn't said anything. Because they didn't have that ambient fear that modern communication tech combined with the natural human lack of a capacity to judge risks accurately has created, this entire local community came to this boys aid. He sounds like he lived as a valued member of his community from beginning to end, a really beautiful human story.
the hospital really goes "nah I'd win"
A mindblowing story. The final wrap-up really puts everything into perspective. Thanks for a great episode ❤
This was incredible, I never knew the origin story of sewing one’s appendages back on but now I do. Hence the reason I’m a subscriber of this channel!
I've heard of many [smaller] reattachments and I know they are possible. I personally know a person who had a part of his hand reattached. Unfortunately, not all doctors are willing to do it. Basically, one just has to end up in the right hospital and everything's possible.
I live in Kenosha. Know the guitarist from Screamer.
Kid sounds braver than I was when my lower leg got cracked in half when a car smashed into me. Still have the steel rod in there! Thank you Kingston General Hospital 🙏
Kevin is absolutely SLAYING on this channel
so fascinating! thanks for shining a light on this story. this shit is right up my alley
I absolutely love your videos. This was super fantastic. Thank you so much.
This is simply so cool. Wow!
Such an awesome story!
maybe it's just my TV but there is a lot of odd strobing/flashing effects in some of the shots in this video. might be worthwhile to add a photosensitivity warning
I didn't notice any odd strobing/flashing effects, I only saw perfectly normal strobing/flashing effects. 🤔
Perfect storytelling!
I had to stop at the end ‘cause you’re gonna make me cry
I love your videos. Keep up the good work.
great video
Those who understand statistics call it the law of truly large numbers, because that's what it is.
this is amazing
Bro has stepped his game up
I can't fathom how surgeons do this. I get squeamish just hearing the description of what happened.
Brilliant video
2:54 and a kid just fell off a train in Toronto and everyone is blaming social media like kids never hopped on trains before 😮
Jesus was holding his hand.
amazing scary story.
So, How many hands does it take to reattach a hand?
5:22 as one would expect from a medic professional, not panic
Yikes. I could never hack it as a doc.
Hacking it is easy. Surgically reattaching it is another story.
I suppose the African proverb is spot on. *You need the whole town to raise a child.*
I think what you mean to say is you need the town to raise a whole child.
@@andywest5773 good one lol
I've had major surgery on my important bone bits, a couple actually.
This made me cringe.
that's all well and good, but what happened to Screamer?
Still talk to the guitarist from time to time.
2:50 not different than today, kids can get away with everything as long as they're making a video for tiktok
Blatant Red Sox propaganda
What happened to VSAUCE
Michael here.
I have a theory:
Micheal originally started the channel as a job, it was supposed to be a gaming channel, that fell through after a while. (That part is fact)
My theory is that Michael had originally intended to use the channel as a springboard to get into mainstream media, but as the channel grew larger the closest opportunity he ever got was Mind Field (which was sponsored by youtube as a part of the TH-cam Red experiment, also it was shot and edited like a discovery channel show) and Mind Field was canceled by TH-cam when Red fell through. I don't think he ever sought out becoming a science communicator, I think he just used science communicator as his way of exposing himself to different platforms.
But that's just my theory.
I'm afraid he didn't make it. I'm so sorry for your loss.
@@TH-cam.Is.Run.By.Terrorists but this is just a theory, a game theory
Forgot one: "If eddy's parents didn't have enough medical insurance"
nah, he literally bypassed that because the head of surgery thought he was a good "experiment"
21:18 Yes, countless variables came together in just the right way to lead to that result, otherwise he'd have had one arm or died or never have been injured in the first place. But that's true of EVERYTHING. Near-infinite variables led to his birth in the first place. The same goes for everyone who ever existed. This isn't special. It's not a miracle. It's just the timeline that played out. Think of the countless number of things that have, or more to the point, have NOT occurred. This is just how it is. 🤷
Are you guys blind. This is not Kevin. This is ai deepfake
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This is honestly so much more pleasant than "First!"
Great storytelling! 👍
This makes me wonder what the equivalent emergency situation would be with today's medical knowledge and technology. My guess is that there is no modern equivalent though I did fail med school by never once applying or even thinking about it so I will defer to strangers online instead.
That's strange, I didn't fail med school by never once applying or even thinking about.
I'm not crying, you're crying! 🥲
I call it, "Beautiful."