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[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"A gentleman's hands could never be dirty!"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

He made them scrub with bleach water until he couldn't smell corpse smell anymore.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Wait. For real? They had so much bacteria on their hands that they smelled of the dead, and they were going right into surgery with live humans? Damn, surgery must have been a death sentence back then.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Not just surgery, but they were also working in labor and delivery, so they were getting all that on mothers and their newborn babies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

They were practicing surgery on cadavers between deliveries. Gotta keep your skills up during your stint in maternity