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Top amputation surgeon had own legs removed due to fetish. Were patients safe?

23 pointsby bookofjoetoday at 7:56 PM12 commentsview on HN

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blfrtoday at 8:17 PM

The 4chan toaster meme remains undefeated.

https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1695828-that-is-my-fetish

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storustoday at 8:13 PM

There is probably some correlation between one's profession and fetishes. We already know some programming languages attract certain types of personalities/attitudes so why would that be different elsewhere?

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acjohnson55today at 8:09 PM

Wow, well, that's one of the more f'd up things I've ever read about. Not sure what else there is to say.

braiamptoday at 8:11 PM

I don't know why the framing. This is easy: review the cases. If it has his hand it's tainted one way or the other. That's it.

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altairprimetoday at 8:10 PM

See also, I suppose, our discussion yesterday in Firefighter arson a long-standing issue https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49130853

stavrostoday at 8:10 PM

Why do I care if someone wants to amputate their own legs? The only issue here is the insurance fraud, if that happened.

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