Revolutionary surgery

THURSDAY, 17 JULY 2008

Oh people
Our calamity is such that
If we speak
Our problems expose us
If we remain silent
Our illness will kill us

Where should we turn?
Direct us oh doctor

Oh doctor
Me my family
My children and wife
Were never ill in our lives
Never took medication
Or saw a doctor before

But over the past few years
We have continuous ill health
With chronic illness that
Made us forget the meaning
Of peace and happiness

Doctor
For God’s sake
Please treat us
Our disease is from within
Our fever starts in our limbs
We will take your bitter pill
If cure us it will

Oh people
Our calamity is such that
If we speak
Our problems expose us
If we remain silent
Our illness will kill us

Where should we turn?
Direct us oh doctor

Doctor
The ailments we suffer
Will not be cured by
????
Nor calcium
Or potassium phosphate
Not sodium bromide
These help physical ailments
Ours are not of that subtype
Our ailments divided
And subdivided
Into nameless conditions

Doctor
For God’s sake
Please treat us
Our disease is from within
Our fever starts in our limbs
We will take your bitter pill
If cure us it will

Oh people
Our calamity is such that
If we speak
Our problems expose us
If we remain silent
Our illness will kill us

Where should we turn?
Direct us oh doctor

Doctor the body is fit
Free of feared illness
‘tis the soul that is sick
Wounded with seven wounds
Can you cure the soul?

Make our dreams come true

We do not need speeches
We need actions

Doctor
For God’s sake
Please treat us
Our disease is from within
Our fever starts in our limbs
We will take your bitter pill
If cure us it will

Oh people
Our calamity is such that
If we speak
Our problems expose us
If we remain silent
Our illness will kill us

Where do we turn?
Direct us oh doctor

Doctor
Trust in God
And take action
To cure us of this
We have had enough
You must find a cure

This disease has gone on for too long

You must do something
Bring out your scalpel
Amputate arms and legs
Discard the harmful parts
Just leave the healthy
To move forwards

Doctor
For God’s sake
Please treat us
Our disease is from within
Our fever starts in our feet

Only major surgery will save us now

Oh people
Our calamity is such that
If we speak
Our problems will expose us
If we remain silent
Our illness will kill us

Where do we turn?
Direct us oh doctor

The song is from a previous revolutionary era; an updated version omits the radical surgical style solution to the problem.



Surgeons nowadays are more into conserving as much tissue as possible, minimal surgery carried out by minimally invasive techniques leaving minimal tissue damage and little or no scarring is the ideal.

When an experienced surgeon is presented with a patient who has already undergone several radical surgical procedures, he will be aware that the scars will cause more complications during any further surgery, and most will be even more conservative in their approach.

If surgery is inevitable the surgeon would want to be up to date with current surgical and medical expertise, and always be guided by the principle of “First do no harm”.

Because if any procedure is carried out by someone who has spent more time delving into historic methods of solving problems rather than modern ones, or indeed spent most of their time outside medicine, they may resort to outdated approaches, amputating legs to deal with gangrenous toes, radical excisions for localised abscesses, ineffectual cautery to bleeding major blood vessels and loss of vast volumes of blood, and they probably would not be very concerned about modern antisepsis leaving wounds exposed to be rapidly colonised by liberal numbers of maggots and parasites.

All progress takes time.

Maybe we will start one day.
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