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Got to do my first stitches on a live patient today. Guy cut himself open with a circular saw.

Emerald 7 May 26
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I've seen it happen. Guy on a ladder decided he needed to be one step higher to cut a hip rafter. Blade guard was pinned up. He lowered the running saw and stepped his thigh right into it. It looked like a wide, jagged cut.

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I have to ask.... did you tell him he was your first? Guys always like to hear they're the first... but maybe not so much in this case. How many stitches?

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That must have been an ugly laceration.

djs64 Level 7 May 27, 2020
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Even before the lac, he wouldn't have won any bikini contests.
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Hmmm...Want to share how he did that?

He was trying to cut a tree with a circular saw, it caught his shirt, and made a massive belly laceration. He was on a ladder at the time.

@Emerald a ladder with a circular saw. Lucky it was only his belly or he may have gotten an honourable mention in the Darwin awards.

@Cyklone actually this was one of those rare instances where obesity paid off. The cut was long, 2 inches deep, and dangerously close to his liver. But his enormous beer gut meant we just had to sew the adipose tissue together inside, then stitch the surface.

@Emerald Cutting a tree with a circular saw. Never should have been attempted. Extremely dangerous and foolish.
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Congrats! It sounds like it was a nice, interesting job as well.

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Congrats remember my first years ago

bobwjr Level 10 May 26, 2020
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