Top amputation surgeon had own legs removed due to fetish. Were patients safe?
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Re: Top amputation surgeon had own legs removed due to fetish. Were patients safe?
#2Wow, well, that's one of the more f'd up things I've ever read about. Not sure what else there is to say.
Re: Top amputation surgeon had own legs removed due to fetish. Were patients safe?
#3Why do I care if someone wants to amputate their own legs? The only issue here is the insurance fraud, if that happened.
Re: Top amputation surgeon had own legs removed due to fetish. Were patients safe?
#4See also, I suppose, our discussion yesterday in Firefighter arson a long-standing issue https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49130853
Re: Top amputation surgeon had own legs removed due to fetish. Were patients safe?
#5I don't know why the framing. This is easy: review the cases. If it has his hand it's tainted one way or the other. That's it.
Re: Top amputation surgeon had own legs removed due to fetish. Were patients safe?
#6Why do I care if someone wants to amputate their own legs? The only issue here is the insurance fraud, if that happened.
Would you be comfortable later finding out that the surgeon who amputated your leg had an amputation fetish?
What if that surgeon's advice had been part of the decision process that lead to you deciding to go ahead with amputation?
Re: Top amputation surgeon had own legs removed due to fetish. Were patients safe?
#7Why do I care if someone wants to amputate their own legs? The only issue here is the insurance fraud, if that happened.
Because it's a sign that he may have been amputating other people's limbs when not medically necessary.
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#8There is probably some correlation between one's profession and fetishes. We already know some programming languages attract certain types of personalities/attitudes so why would that be different elsewhere?
Re: Top amputation surgeon had own legs removed due to fetish. Were patients safe?
#9There is probably some correlation between one's profession and fetishes. We already know some programming languages attract certain types of personalities/attitudes so why would that be different elsewhere?
There’s also a known correlation between firefighters and arsonists
Re: Top amputation surgeon had own legs removed due to fetish. Were patients safe?
#10I don't know why the framing. This is easy: review the cases. If it has his hand it's tainted one way or the other. That's it.
How is it tainted by that alone? It’s almost certain that at least some of the patients he amputated actually needed amputation.