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      • Robert Liston, thanks to his speed, only lost 1 in 10 patients. Sometimes, he got carried away, though; he once removed a man’s testicles whilst removing his leg, but the most well-known mishap is the surgery that took the life of three people.
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  2. Oct 5, 2017 · Robert Liston was performing a leg amputation on a patient who was lying flat on his table. As he brought down his knife, he was so focused on his speed that he took his surgical assistant’s fingers off along with the patient’s leg.

  3. Jun 30, 2021 · Robert Liston, thanks to his speed, only lost 1 in 10 patients. Sometimes, he got carried away, though; he once removed a man’s testicles whilst removing his leg, but the most well-known mishap is the surgery that took the life of three people.

  4. Aug 12, 2022 · That's the number Scottish physician Dr. Robert Liston achieved when, in a rush to carry out an amputation, he not only killed his patient but two otherwise-healthy witnesses, according to a 2017 piece published by All That's Interesting.

  5. The coffin of Robert Liston FRS in the Terrace Catacombs, Highgate Cemetery Death [ edit ] He died of a ruptured aortic aneurysm [11] on 7 December 1847 at his Mayfair home, and his funeral took place at St Michael's Church, Highgate , six days later.

  6. Jan 14, 2022 · Robert Liston: the surgeon with a 300% mortality rate How did this man, a world-renowned doctor at the cutting edge of nineteenth-century medicine, come to be the only surgeon with a 300% ...

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  7. Oct 24, 2012 · The man who just flew through your amputation with apparent reckless abandon was Dr. Robert Liston, one of the finest surgeons of the time.---

  8. Apr 26, 2021 · 19th-century surgeon Robert Liston, “The Fastest Knife in the West End,” lopped off body parts at blinding speeds. This inevitably led to a few small mistake...

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