Amputated the leg in under 21⁄2 minutes (the patient died afterwards in the ward from hospital gangrene; they usually did in those pre-Listerian days). He amputated in addition the fingers of his young assistant (who died afterwards in the ward from hospital gangrene). He also slashed through the coat tails of a distinguished surgical spectator, who was so terrified that the knife had pierced his vitals he fainted from fright (and was later discovered to have died from shock).
Damn, where was this 30 minutes ago? It never gets any easier no matter how many patients you lose.
But have you ever failed so hard you had a 300% fatality rate on a single amputation?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Liston#Liston’s_most_famous_case
Wtf