Dr. Rafael Lucas, a Brazilian orthopedist, has frozen social media with a video that is not suitable for sensitive stomachs. The removal of Kirschner wires.
These wires are steel rods that pass through the phalanges to correct claw toes, that deformity where the tendons contract and the foot looks like a bird’s claw. After weeks of having metal embedded in them, the doctor coldly removes them, without anesthesia, pulling them out right there in the outpatient clinic.
Although the doctor says it “hurts less than having stitches removed”, the sound and image of the metal coming out of the bone are pure visual agony. Can you imagine walking with that for weeks?