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If you were not able to get medical care, and needed to perform a small operation to say cut a skin-canerous looking freckle off your skin, what sorts of materials would you use?
I'm starting to wonder whether doctors are competent, and as i trust myself more than a doctor, so why shouldn't i look in to small operations for myself, to save money and doing a better job.
So my question is, what medical supplies would you want onhand. I figure hot soapy water and a shaver to prepare the area, and some x-acto knives for cutting the skin, and a needle and thread to sew up an incision.
I figure if a doctor was involved, they would probably have better knives for cutting, and probably access to proper pain killers. I am reminded of a passage in the autobiography of jesse owen, the sprinter, that as a child his parents cut a large softball sized tumor off his leg... soap and water, with a sharp kitchen knife.
If you were preparing a medicine kit for a world without doctors, what would you stock for an appendectomy? I'm starting to be concerned that we should put operations instructions in the public domain so that the millions of underclass persons who can't afford healthcare can still get basic outpatient operations in a Do it yourself style.
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