Butter Knife Hernia Surgery

Contrary to popular belief, surgery wait times in the US are frequently substantially longer than they are in nations with universal healthcare. Depending on how urgent the operation is, patients may have to wait two, three, four, or even more months. You could have to wait quite a bit for procedures like hernia surgery.

A Californian man decided to handle his own hernia surgery in 2011. It's unclear whether it was brought on by a problem with wait times, a lack of funds, or even a mental disease. But it is known that he made an attempt to use a butter knife. Emergency personnel found the knife protruding into the man's abdomen when they arrived. In an effort to cauterize the cut or perhaps just to look like an action hero from the 1980s, he pulled it out and pushed the cigarette he was smoking into the wound.