No, he’s not. But he’s been known to ‘play doctor’ on occasion.
there’s a generic version of dermabond on the market these days which is basically super glue with magic ingredient x454 that makes it more flexible and less brittle than superglue, at 5 times the price. It’s what we use in the hosp.
am I the only one who thought Red Barchetta’s post was about cauterizing the wound?
In an oven? They don’t do that in the hospital, do they?
please say no. I already hate hospitals enough.
Actually we use a little battery powered cautery “pen,” heats a wire, smells just like when you flash burn your eyebrows doing a bong hit. So I’m told.
Well played, kind sir.
I, too, shall carry the mantle.
I vote treating the wound with lemonjuice and salt! 
Can I use it too? Because I already did.
Old School Graphic Artist checking in! Back in the old days when we lived on Xacto knives and Rapidiographs I always keep a band aid in my tabouret cuz they never went ‘bad’ and we were gonna need one eventually. Now we keep the cool NexCare type around because they are so soft and flexible and seal the wound up so well.
But you prolly want a horror story, right? At one studio, my co-worker/lunatic kept her Xactos blade up in her storage jar. No big deal, right? Yeah, except I had a project on both our drawing tables and went from one to the other and since I would never carry an Exacto around, I used hers at her table. I went to pull the knife straight up from the jar and it hung on the lip. You know what happens next - the knife stopped moving and my hand kept going. Slit the crap out of my finger and had to go to the minor emergency center.
What made me madder - losing all that time, bleeding on the art or sitting with a slit finger in a bowl of stingy stuff? Me, for forgetting she was dork.
While working on one project back during our first year of design school, one of my fellow designers had a minor disaster relating to an exacto cut. He was cutting his project boards to size (he had just finished a difficult inking project) when his hand slipped and he cut his finger pretty badly. The real problem, though, was that he faints at the sight of blood, so right on cue he faints, while still holding the exacto in his hand. Not the best idea.
Plus he hit his head on his drafting desk. All around not a fun time!
Be very very careful. The same thing happened to my uncle and 50 years later he died.
I hate when I get a papercut, look at it, say “%^!” then forget about it for a bit, then look back down and my finger is covered in blood. That always sucks.
superglue (or krazy glue, if ya wanna be brand specific,) as has been mentioned, rocks for small cuts. but you gotta remember 3 things:
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clean! fricken clean that wound but good with peroxide or alcohol. then pat dry with a clean paper towel
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a little drop to start, with the wound pinched closed (and if on or near a joint, with the joint bent so skin is stretched to the normal max.)
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when the drop from step 2 is halfway to dry, unpinch (and unbend, if necessary) then add a couple more drops to the middle of the cut, and spread thin with a clean toothpick (or the point of the glue tube, if you will be the only one using it.) if the cut is on a joint, then as these secondary drops dry, very slowly flex & unflex the joint. 1 or 2 reps and the glue should be dried. this way the glue is unlikely to crack, and should last as a seal just about as long as takes the wound to heal.
if you have done this right, you should be able to rub a cut lemon over the wound with not so much as a hint of sting.