# Outdated Operations- How Have You Been Dismembered?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 1, 2011, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdated-operations-how-have-you-been-dismembered/583950 "2011-06-01T12:53:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdated-operations-how-have-you-been-dismembered/583950/1 "2011-06-01T12:53:58Z")

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Inspired by [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=610614), I was wondering what horror stories you can come up with regarding operations.

Many years ago I had a [highly selective vagotomy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagotomy) which is not very often undertaken these days- well in regard to ulcers anyway. If I have a procedure done at a hospital I normally have to explain to the nurses what it was.