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🗽   The honourable doctor—let us learn from this book and listen to those who speak up

Health

The year is 1828. Anaesthesia is yet to be invented and tethered to an operating table in the centre of a crowded, putrid theatre at Guy’s Hospital, a patient screams at his surgeon to stop the procedure. An hour into a lithotomy—which should have been over within minutes—the flustered surgeon, determined to retrieve the stone, refuses to stop, until he can hold the stone aloft in front of his audience. His patient endured over an hour of excruciating pain to stoke this surgeon’s ego and died days later.One of the spectators in the onlooking crowd is “The honourable doctor,” our protagonist James Lambert, a doctor who is appalled by what he is watching.

BMJ     Apr 11, 2025