那个尴尬的故事是这样的,Liston仅用了了2分30秒就完成了一台大腿截肢术,而在术中他不仅截掉了患者的大腿,还意外切掉了一位年轻助手的手指。同时,由于出刀太猛,戳破了一位在旁边参观手术的著名外科医生的外衣,这名外科医生被当场吓死。随后,丢掉大腿的病人和丢掉手指的年轻医生均死于感染。Liston的一台手术使三个人丧了命。
最后是原文 The oldest eponymous instrument in the modern hand tray is the heavy bone shear designed by Robert Liston (1794 –1847) 1(Fig. 1). Liston was a Scottish surgeon, famous for his physicality in the operating room. A colleague wrote, “[Liston] would amputate the thigh, single-handed, compress the artery with his left hand, using no tourniquet, and do all the cutting and sawing with his right.”2
Liston was brusque with his fellow surgeons, and it was said that he “was a teacher more by what he did than what he said.”1 Likely a result of his uncompromising attitude, Liston engaged in no shortage of professional quarrels.
He was officially dismissed from the Royal Infirmary for 5 years before returning to prominence.3
Standing over an operating table in 1846 (with a young Joseph Lister in the audience), Liston announced, “We are going to try a Yankee dodge today, gentlemen, for making men insensible.” The patient was anesthetized with ether, as had been demonstrated by William Morton several weeks earlier in Boston. The amputation took 28 seconds and was a painless success. Liston remarked, “This Yankee dodge, gentlemen, beats Mesmerism hollow.”