Could you do it?
>>16771728I'm not a surgeon, so no. If I were, my gut (kek) instinct is that despite knowing the stakes, I would fail to be able to do the self-surgery. It does make me question if the first medical doctor on Mars should have their appendix removed before leaving.
>>16771733>It does make me question if the first medical doctor on Mars should have their appendix removed before leaving.Or you could just send two of them.
>>16771775If you have excess space, that would be ideal as it also addresses many other edge cases. The first missions are unlikely to have excess space.
>>16771776I guess it depends on the nature of the mission.Bare minimum you need a mechanic to keep life support systems running and a doctor to keep them alive. But those are ideall coming with to support the researchers completing the actual mission. Then again, a lot of that work can be done remotely which is why nobody's in any particular rush to even make it back to the moon. Maybe a geochemist to do direct field work but 90% of what he could do is accomplished by rovers.A botanist to try to grow shit? Kinda putting the cart before the horse.Ideally you'd want to set up habitable quarters remotely before sending anyone which would be done by robots. Humans wouldn't be necessary until the very last stages and by then you're probably sending a lot of people in waves to actually live there.
How did he do it?Imagine you cut your hand with a knife, superficially. Now imagine that in that moment you introduce the knife back in the cut to cut it some more. Isn't that hard enough? Reflex alone would stop you from doing it. Let alone reach internal organs and on top of that you have to know what you're doing.
>>16771801local anesthetic I'd imagine
>>16771812>A solution of 0.5% novocaine was used for local anesthesia of the abdominal wall. No idea how effective that is but the entire process would require quite a bit of mental fortitude. There was also a physician at an Antarctica base who discovered a lump in her breast while overwintering. She had to perform two biopsies on herself and start treating herself with chemo until she could be evacuated in the spring. She died about a decade later of a brain tumor. It's also worth noting that the Soviet doctor ended up dying of lung cancer in his 60s.
>>16771728Didn't he get cold being that exposed?
>>16771733>>16771776they had two on the moon landing. I saw on the audio feed for it, but they were probably on the ground. they maybe would send two doctors to mars because then there would be two of them for one problem (so one could always be inactive), and other time (or space) saving redundancy
>>16771849sounds like she just started operating on herself and doctoring herself, like doing it at home or something. pretty stupid
