Who needs medical school anymore? 10 Gory Surgical Triumphs on YouTube
Who needs medical school anymore? You can now watch the world’s surgeons do their thing from the comfort of your parents’ basement.
From open-heart surgery to amputations, sex-change operations to autopsies, the operating rooms of the world have gone online. One website, OR-Live, regularly broadcasts live from the O.R. For example, tune in next week to watch a hysterectomy. These broadcasts, and dozens of other videos posted to YouTube, draw hundreds of thousands of viewers. We’ve got four words for you: advertising-supported health care.
And to jump-start the movement, we’ve curated 10 of the best surgical videos we could find. Be forewarned, though, be very forewarned: Some of these are grisly, and all of them are graphic. The autopsy and sex-change operation, in particular, are very not-safe-for-work and not-safe-for-the-squeamish.
A few other helpful suggestions we’ve compiled from personal research. Don’t watch while eating a hamburger or steak. Don’t send this link to your mom, even if she’s a doctor. And do not, under any circumstances, send one of these to your co-workers with the subject line, New From Zooborns, as a joke. It’s not funny.
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