27 Mind-Blowing Medical Facts That’ll Make You Say "How The Hell Does The Human Body Do That?!"
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“When a child is delivered by C-section, most of the time (in the US at least) the mother is fully awake through an entire major surgery, when layers of skin, muscle, and organ tissue are cut open and pulled aside. People will peer into her living insides while talking to her, as her organs to pulse, bleed, etc., while she experiences varying levels of sensation/awareness of the proceedings. (Including, in a some horrible cases of medical error/carelessness, excruciating pain.) I know one person who watched the proceedings through a reflection — she saw inside her own cut-open uterus.”
“I feel more men need to try to imagine this. I don’t know of any other major surgery performed on a conscious person, and cannot imagine what would happen if we asked, say, people getting abdominal tumors removed to stay CALM, for crying out loud, while an entire medical staff cut open and rooted around their insides for an hour or so.”
