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Re:A liver transplant from start to finish by ykl on Friday October 17, 2025 @04:56AM (#45614595)
I am pretty squeamish around blood (even reading about it...), but this piece was so well written and engrossing and impactful that I made it all the way through in one shot. I had no idea that the bovie instrument (and broadly the entire field of electrosurgery [1]) was even a thing; I assumed it was anll still scalpels and such.

An incredible piece highlighting something people should know more about; thanks for posting this!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrosurgery

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Re:A liver transplant from start to finish by nocoiner on Friday October 17, 2025 @11:49AM (#45618118)
I too am squeamish and while I agree that the piece was very well written, it was too much for me. I had to tap out during the part about 18th/19th century grafting experiments. Just too much for me lol.

Will probably pick this back up and skip over the rest of that part though!

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Re:A liver transplant from start to finish by FlynnLivesMattr on Friday October 17, 2025 @12:13PM (#45618408)
Relevant recent HN discussion on "Electricity can heal wounds three times as fast (2023)" [0]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45604779

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