Phew! But I still hope I never get one of those damn things!
Hold on a second. If you listen closely you can hear the narrator saying at the beginning, “He operates without a knife, opening the skin with a mere movement of his finger.” In other words, it’s a psychic surgery hoax.
I’m not certain exactly how he made the incision, but I guarantee you that it is real. I’ve seen enough sebaceous cysts (one of my dogs is super-prone) to know that what is shown there is entirely possible.
Cream cheese with cherry syrup. It even came out nicely, like it was being squeezed out of a tube. The surgeon must have used a cutting instrument of some kind, even though it might not technically have been a ‘knife’. I don’t know what was up with that part of the narration, myself.
Maybe the guy had really sharp fingernails.
Anyway, it didn’t gross me out at all. I’ve heard tales told by a home health nurse who tended to low-income outpatient patients living in a warm climate. I’ll just say ‘maggots were a blessing’ and leave it at that. I’ve heard tales told by a nurse who worked in a podiatrist’s clinic in a region with a high incidence of alcoholism and diabetes, who once saw a patient with diabetic neuropathy (literally ‘nerve-death’) so severe she was unaware her flesh had worn away from her bone in one spot until she noticed that she would stick to the linoleum floor in her kitchen when she was barefoot. As an Internet geek, I’ve seen ‘tubgirl’ and ‘goatse.cx’ and others the names of which I forget, all of which were worse than this movie in at least one way.
It takes more than a large sebaceous cyst to put me off my feed. Even if it is white and thick and creamy.*
*(The feed and the cyst’s contents.)
I don’t doubt that such a cyst could exist in reality, but I do doubt the veracity of that video. Maybe the cyst was real and he just palmed a scalpel out of sight of the camera, or maybe the whole thing was staged. The way he was tugging on the flesh at the end, the patient should have been screaming in pain.
sturmhauke: Regardless of the veracity of the video, the existence of this thread makes me happy. It proves that the SDMB is truly a haven for free expression.
(Medical geeks groan.)
I’d have given the “surgeon” fifty bucks to down that tablespoon of goo that came out.
what, do you hate doctors or something?
by the way, the earpuss video was pretty nice, too. i heard that nice squishy “pop”…bah.
and yeah, i think goatse might be worse than all of this…except it’s not a video…(or so i’m aware of)
ah…the breadth and scope of the internets…
I was mostly just fascinated with the sheer amount of punishment the lady was inflicting on the poor fellow’s back. The squeezing and scooping and whatnot didn’t really affect me.
With a smell to go with the visuals, though, I can envision myself getting a little green about the gills.
I was disappointed in that the guy doing the squeezing didn’t position her properly and try to paint the wall.
(banging head on desk)
I deserve this
I deserve this
I deserve this
The ads are killing me.
Ivylass, sitting back smugly, knowing her brain has not been polluted.
There are certain things that I can go through life without ever seeing…and this is one of them.
I’ve seen the beginning of this video, and I’ve seen goatse, and I’ve seen tubgirl.
Goatse just doesn’t bother me all that much.
If tubgirl were a video, I still think that this cyst video would be worse. Not sure why; this cyst video just seems far more gross than a girl voluntarily shitting herself.
I think.
Okay, I’ve spent far too much time thinking about this.
That dude wasn’t a surgeon. Real surgeons wouldn’t be sticking ungloved hands into an open wound like that. And what was up with the Bible?
A splatter guard. Either that or they were going to swat the cyst with it first.
I join Ivylass in her smugness. I decided to cut myself a break this time and not let my overwhelming curiosity about the world’s biggest zit get the best of me. The descriptions posted by other 'Dopers still made me do that “shudder” thing, so I think I’ll pass.
Plus, Mr. Silver1 is supposed to be making dinner tonight. He’s a very good cook. I want to eat, so no video.
Was that really a pimple???
No. See earlier posts on the previous page (including mine) for further explanation about sebaceous cysts.
I just felt it important to point out the three things for which Qadgop is famous:
- Prison doctor
- Tolkein expert
- Likes to eat really foul, old, and smelly cheese