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Thread #106826 Message #2210200
Posted By: Bob Bolton
06-Dec-07 - 09:46 PM
Thread Name: BS: Fire crew aid in penis operation
Subject: RE: BS: Fire crew aid in penis operation
G'day all,
It strikes me that the medical equipment in the Royal Wigan Infirmary is a bit behind the times.
Back in the 1960s, when I lived in tiny Hobart (about as far south as the 'civilised world' goes ... at least in the Pacific regions) a friend work as instrument technician for the Royal Hobart Hospital. He was telling me that he had to 'scrub up' and 'gown up' to do a surgical similar removal for the operating theatre doctors ... althought this was just from a finger ... not ... !
The point of the story is that the 'surgical grinder' used the same principle as various bone drills and saws: the cutting surface did not 'spin' - but oscillated over a very short distance. This meant that the blade would act on the immovable metal part ... but the adjacent flesh would move with the blade - and not be cut.
I'm glad to say that I don't have any 'first-hand' experience of the procedure ... but it strikes me that, just on forty years back, little Royal Hobart was well in advance of the Royal Wigan Infirmary!