Snip Snip: A patient came in to the emergency room with facial lacerations. A strip of skin was hanging off his nose, held in place only by a narrow strip of tissue. While the patient was waiting to be stitched up, a nurse decided to clean him up a little. She snipped off the dangling flap of skin to make him look more presentable. The plastic surgeon was, of course, furious when he arrived to find that a straightforward repair would now entail grafting.
Tip: If you’re not a surgeon, don’t remove any part of a patient’s body! It’s always easier to cut something off than to reattach it.
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