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		aqme28 on March 17, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: In-flight surgery with a coat-hanger and silverwar... I would define a surgery's success by the success of the outcome, not by the tools that go into it. How would you define a "successful" surgery? An in-flight surgery that stabilizes the patient indefinitely is more successful IMO than one with all the best tooling that gets the patient killed.

matheusmoreira on March 17, 2022 [–]

Not indefinitely. The point of all emergency medical treatment is to stabilize the patient before they get to a proper hospital.

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