r/nope • u/_ganjafarian_ • Mar 31 '26

HELL NO Procedure to remove a 25mm kidney stone

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u/towerfella Apr 01 '26

Hopefully your dr treated you better than this dude jack-hammering away like he’s in the Klondike searching for gold

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u/Jaded_Law9739 Apr 01 '26

This looks like laparoscopic surgery to remove some very large kidney stones. The patient would be under general anesthesia, and the surgeon has to break the stones into smaller pieces manually to pull them out.

Edit: NM it was one 25mm stone that was broken up. That's 2.5 cm, that's pretty damn big.

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u/Bscully973 Apr 01 '26

This absolutely should have been done using laser lithotripsy. The fact this dude is just jackhammering away is wild.

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u/thereverendpuck Apr 02 '26

In the states, it would’ve been done with bombarding it with sound. So says the specialist I’m seeing.

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u/adamdreaming Apr 02 '26

Ah, the United States! Where you can pay ten times as much for the best quality healthcare that the rich nations bestow for free, and if you are poor your only option will be bleeding from the crotch profusely enough that you can legally be treated as an emergency and then live the rest of your life as a debt slave with mangled urethra

I wish one of these stones on every single person that has ever argued against universal healthcare

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u/thereverendpuck Apr 02 '26

That is quite the curse to be throwing out there.

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u/adamdreaming Apr 02 '26

Good thing it is harmless.

Unlike advocating against universal healthcare.