phlegmmo: Well, there's always a chance the sprinklers could come on accidentally.





Which is why it's a good idea to have your plastic surgery inside a friend's home rather then in a garage or near the bird-feeder.

Darwin's Traveling Medicine Show and DaySpa?

I find it amusing they warn about the risk of 'disfigurement.' Isn't that the goal?

"backyard"
"tongue-splitting"
"implants put under the skin"

Yeah, you go with that. Uncle Charles awaits.

DNRTFA, but but backyard surgery sounds like something that would be commonplace in say, West Virginia.

As someone who has many friends that have done this stupid shiat...It really is not that dangerous as long as you follow proper sterile-field protocol and prep techniques. I think implants/scarification is a bit much, but to each their own (provided technique is correct and safe).

Maus III: [4.bp.blogspot.com image 500x500]

Should I be awake for this...?

The hammock just adds an extra degree of difficulty.

"A bloke who's a professor of dentistry for 40 years does not have a discussion with someone who removes his teeth using STRING and a DOOR!"

How about bathtub surgeries?

AbbeySomeone: Darwin's Traveling Medicine Show and DaySpa?

Wrong part of the country -- apparently this is in Adelaide.

/really not finding any humor in this sort of thing.
^{/not hot}

I Have The Touch of a Shocked Monkey: DNRTFA, but but backyard surgery sounds like something that would be commonplace in say, West Virginia.

South Australia...same thing.

Subby, you insinuated anal.

I'm a hotlinking bandwidth thief.

Rufus Lee King: [www.threestoogespictures.info image 370x278]

So much win. TY!

Are "Bathroom Surgeries" still ok?

Joshua5: How about bathtub surgeries?

no, bathtubs are for kidney removal only!!!

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It's The Rapiest!

Where am I supposed to practice mexican medicine; in the front yard? I think not.

\can't possibly be obscure
\\mexican medicine ftw

phlegmmo: Well, there's always a chance the sprinklers could come on accidentally.


I spit up my coffee.
Thanks for the Sunday morning laugh!

FTFA: Australian Medical Association state president Dr Peter Sharley said: "These are unnecessary and dangerous procedures with risks of hemorrhaging, infection and disfigurement.

Oh no ... a risk of disfigurement.

/isn't that the point??

People who live in states with Republican leadership, that's who.

I know a girl who recently went to a body mod shop to get her labia reduced (yeah some girls are stupid enough to want that sort of thing). To get it done properly by a real surgeon costs $6k, she got it for $200. That's the reason -- money.

// kinda creepy to know there is someone in my neighborhood chopping off labia for $200.

wambu:
/waiting for the "Backyard Surgery" channel on cable

personally I'm waiting for the "home hysterectomy kit"...maybe they can put Dr. House's pic on the box-"Dr. House home hysterectomy kit"*

*Dr. house is not a real physician, use of this product is at your own risk-vicodin not included.....

Those damn tree surgeons.

farkeruk: Steve Zodiac: First there is a demand for the services, second there is a limited supply of 'reputable' surgeons who will do that sort of work on people, and third those that will do it from a hospital or equipped office are expensive. People flock to cheap, whether it's goods or services. They only start caring about quality when it adversely affects them.

THIS

Serious question: how many of these procedures actually go wrong? I used to trust Doctors, but after some problems with doctors failing to diagnose a problem, I don't trust them much, and that they'll use any levels of scare tactics just to keep people from wanting to reform medicine.

There was quite a bit of this in the UK, where people were flying off to Poland for dental work because it was over half the price, followed by a whole load of FUD by UK dentists about cases that went wrong.

Yeah I have to note that there's a significant rate of hospital-acquired infections. With bacteria that isn't commonly found at-large, so it's fairly safe to assume it came only from the hospital. Many are drug-resistant, a few utterly untreatable. The idea of this being a sterile environment is somewhat mythical. Due to the traffic of the practice, it's arguably worse than operating in a home environment. The garden-variety infections you might catch at home are pretty much all easily treatable- the drug resistance of some of the hospital-acquired stuff, not so much.

Oznog: Yeah I have to note that there's a significant rate of hospital-acquired infections. With bacteria that isn't commonly found at-large, so it's fairly safe to assume it came only from the hospital. Many are drug-resistant, a few utterly untreatable. The idea of this being a sterile environment is somewhat mythical. Due to the traffic of the practice, it's arguably worse than operating in a home environment. The garden-variety infections you might catch at home are pretty much all easily treatable- the drug resistance of some of the hospital-acquired stuff, not so much.


Some people get infections at hospitals
Therefore, home surgery is safer than hospital surgery


Nice logic there.

The article creeped me out so much I couldn't finish reading it. I don't know how you all managed it. You're all made of stronger stuff than me, I guess.

as a hotlinking bandwidth thief, i'm getting a kick out of these replies

Article reminds me of the Simpsons episode...when Homer needed heart bypass surgery, and found a guy who did "$99 heart bypass"

UCFRoadWarrior: Article reminds me of the Simpsons episode...when Homer needed heart bypass surgery, and found a guy who did "$99 heart bypass"

paging dr nick.....