TIL Robert Liston is the only surgeon in history to have performed an operation with a 300% mortality rate, losing his patient to infection, accidentally amputating his assistant's fingers, who also died of infection, and slashing a spectator who died from shock

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Liston



Submitted March 02, 2015 at 08:14AM by mike_pants http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2xmm41/til_robert_liston_is_the_only_surgeon_in_history/