No antiseptic, no Novocaine, no nothing. Just the song “Hip to Be Square” drowning out your boyish screams.
The urban legend goes you wake up in a bathtub missing a kidney. The bathtub is filled with ice, though, which is silly because the organ, not the person, goes on ice.
Sure is a memorable legend, though.
I think the idea is that it’s supposed to be beneficial to the surgery itself, causes blood vessels to contract naturally and so forth.
But I’m pretty sure it just makes you much much more likely to die considering a lot of modern surgery actually has to go out of its way to raise body temps. I guess the other implication is they don’t actually care about that.
What does chloroform even smell like?
Disclaimer: all this info is from reddit and lemmy, I’m not a doctor
You should be able to smell it, this comic and all the pop culture tropes that the smallest drop of chloroform with amke you lose your conscience are greatly exaggerated.
Apparently it takes a lot of chloroform for a significant amount of time for that effect.
However chloroform is still kinda toxic, so it’s not like it’s a good idea to have it as a room scent.
Kind of a sickly sweet if I remember right. Worked in a pharmacy that had a medication disposal box and someone dropped a bottle of the stuff in front of it.
I have had enough of these dates costing a kidney every time.
You don’t go on dates often, don’t you?
I will never go on a second date for the life of me.
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The note is considerate of them
One of my favorite episodes
Thank you. I can’t remember the last time I laughed this hard.
Relatable
