Robert Liston (1794 - 1847) was a daring, pioneering Scottish surgeon, with a reputation both in the British isles and abroad. A showman, he relished in being able to carry out swift operations that other surgeons shied away from.
Now, in those times before modern anaesthetics, pure speed made the difference in terms of pain and especially survival, it's said that he often took only two and a half minutes to amputate a leg (which either way felt like forever to the patient maybe).
His most famous case started as a routine amputation, under two and a half minutes. The patient later died in the hospital of gangrene. Due to the whizzing speed of his operations, Liston constantly disregarded what is going on around him, and so he slashed off some fingers off of his young assistant, who also died of gangrene. And to top it off, he sliced through the coat of a distinguished spectator, who thought that his innards were cut open and dropped dead from fright.
The only operation in history with a 300% chance of death.
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