Comment by lnsru
3 days ago
Best Soviet doctors! Poor guys working without any equipment to get perfect results. Sure good way for easy cases, bud hard cases are cripples afterwards. Or badly healed bones are separated with chisel and then comes next try… been there, saw that. Thanks but no, I’ll take a western medicine with all the screws and plates. Despite screws and plates being much easier to work with, every sane doctor will try without them at first even for moderately hard cases.
Is this survivorship bias?
I just searched around and it’s accurate and worthy reading by user called Minardi-Man: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/73aiiu/what_...
The chisel part happened to my classmate. I rather take western medical titanium screws than second attempt to fix the hand old school.
Yes.