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Why the hell did I write "Electric" when I clearly meant to write "Electronic"? Although 'electric surgery' is a good band name. Gotta write that down.
puke & cry - Although 'electric surgery' is a good band name.
When cutting a patient open (such as to add or subtract a kidney), surgeons typically rig the patient up to an electric circuit and a conductive instrument to the other end of the circuit. When the conductive instrument touches tissue, the tissue scientamagically parts ways.
Kind of disgusting when zapping through layers upon layers of fat, though.
... parted through adipose like Moses through the red sea...
Surprisingly, no smell. Less blood than with a scalpel.
I hope your new kidneys are doing well, regardless of how the vector to their insertion point was prepped! Just curious - where they added ventrally (ie., in the area of the abdomen, in the front)?
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