I just heard this commercial on the radio this morning for a clinic in Chicago that offers “No needle, No scalpel vasectomies”.
“No bags of frozen peas, no stitches,” the add promised.
??
I thought it was a joke.
Then I started wondering how a mild surgical procedure like this could be completed without a single incision.
How do they get to the vas deferens non-invasively?
Use smoke and mirrors?
Wave a white-gloved hand and make gestures in the general area of the crotch?
Maybe they go in through an existing opening? :eek:
Use quick-set concrete or silicone to block something from going somewhere?
I shuddered during the 35 minute trip to work this morning thinking of different means by which to accomplish the same task that for the last century or so was done with an incision (or two).
I mean, if my doctor doesn’t have at least a tin-snip, two vise-grips, and a flint adz then I don’t think it’s a legitimate operation here, know what I mean?
So, I get to work this morning and I search for “No needle, no incision vasectomy” and this is what I find.
Turns out they don’t use a needle or a scalpel, they use a chain saw!!
Just kidding, OK now exhale (for the male crowd with their dangling participles still intact).
Bait and switch, it seems.
They don’t use a needle or a scalpel but they still make an incision somehow and somehow they spread open that incision to gain access to the aforementioned vas deferens, – but no scalpels are used!
According to the website, a doctor from China discovered the procedure way back in 1974 and it’s been used in the States since '88.
Great! Again with the no-incision stuff…ah, maybe they’ve adopted the loosest of definitions for the word incision. Possibly stolen from the mining community?
in·ci·sion
–noun; a cut, gash, or notch in which a 17 ton tractor may be driven into.
From the website again;
Note the word incision is never used to describe what is being done, although there somehow is being gained access to the inside of the scrotum. Also, no thanks, I don’t want my ends typed either. You may ty them, but do not ever type them.
Thoughts?