Imagine you are a surgical patient, and your doctor is under pressure from elsewhere to let you die on the table. Imagine your surgeon suffers a heart attack during your operation, or lets his kid "help" with surgery. Or imagine you are a surgeon and a patient comes to you with an emergency hidden under a heavy and complicated theatrical costume.
Or, in the case of Angus Wallace, you respond to the classic "Is there a doctor on board?" request during an airline flight. The patient must have surgery before landing because that process could kill her, unless you cut her open using only what's available on the plane. Nothing is sterile and you have no trained assistants. That's a true story, as well as the others. Read them all in a list of five medical operations with a twist at Mental Floss. Only one of the cases ended in death, that one's a doozy.
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