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by fragmede 537 days ago
Hope you don't need surgery then! Suture training kits like these are quite popular for surgeons to train on. https://a.co/d/3cAotZ0 I don't know about you, but I'm not a rubbery rectangular slab of plastic, so obviously this kit can't help them learn.
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This is a reason I opted to have a plastic surgeon come in when I went to the ER with an injury.

I could've had the nurse close me up and leave me with a scar, which she admitted would happen with her practice, or I could have someone with extensive experience treating wounds so that they'd heal in cosmetically appealing way do it. I opted for the latter.

The difference being that you have to do a little more than that to become a board-certified surgeon. If a VC gives you a billion dollars to buy and practice on every available surgery practice kit in the world, you will still fail to become a surgeon. And we enforce such standards because if we don't then people die needlessly.