middle doctor is performing aggressive surgery, left doctor is upset at the sight. Picture makes it look like the legs belong to the patient, bent out of shape.
Eventually pertinent:
The peculiar colouring and the “ripple” effect of the folds on the cloth covering the patient make it look like it is water that the surgeon is diving into. Might have been better to show the access slits in the cloth instead, but then the artist might have to have drawn Flesh with Blood. And yes, the angles make it look as though it is the patient’s twisted torso and legs that are lifting from the operating table.
I wonder if people operating deep in elephants’ abdomens have some sort of safety line? (I don’t really wonder that).
Isn’t “All right, I’m going in” something TV/movie surgeons say as a cheap way to build tension in a dangerous operation just before they reach into the patient’s abdomen?
@ DemetriosX – I thought the phrase was a reference to scuba divers or cave explorers.
It took me a while to realize there were four people in the picture. I thought the patient had been disfigured in some accident and those were his legs sticking up.
You might think that this is not sanitary, but really, it’s all right. You see, the field was already contaminated by their masks not covering their noses.
I thought the patients legs were floating up into the air as though they were filled with helium and the doctor is commenting that one should always tie the legs down for anchorage.
Which is to say, I didn’t get it.
Oddly, I immediately understood that there was a hole in the fabric covering the patient – and in the patient – and that the legs belonged to a doctor leaning into the patient’s body.
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middle doctor is performing aggressive surgery, left doctor is upset at the sight. Picture makes it look like the legs belong to the patient, bent out of shape.
Eventually pertinent:
The peculiar colouring and the “ripple” effect of the folds on the cloth covering the patient make it look like it is water that the surgeon is diving into. Might have been better to show the access slits in the cloth instead, but then the artist might have to have drawn Flesh with Blood. And yes, the angles make it look as though it is the patient’s twisted torso and legs that are lifting from the operating table.
I wonder if people operating deep in elephants’ abdomens have some sort of safety line? (I don’t really wonder that).
Isn’t “All right, I’m going in” something TV/movie surgeons say as a cheap way to build tension in a dangerous operation just before they reach into the patient’s abdomen?
@ DemetriosX – I thought the phrase was a reference to scuba divers or cave explorers.
It took me a while to realize there were four people in the picture. I thought the patient had been disfigured in some accident and those were his legs sticking up.
You might think that this is not sanitary, but really, it’s all right. You see, the field was already contaminated by their masks not covering their noses.
I thought the patients legs were floating up into the air as though they were filled with helium and the doctor is commenting that one should always tie the legs down for anchorage.
Which is to say, I didn’t get it.
Oddly, I immediately understood that there was a hole in the fabric covering the patient – and in the patient – and that the legs belonged to a doctor leaning into the patient’s body.