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Yup. Also happened in this one book I read about the Vietnam War. Idk which thread I brought it up in, but I've definitely mentioned this before. The MC got shot in the butt, and the medic was a new guy and froze up in the middle of action, then forgot to treat for shock and overall did a terrible job, then the MC got gangrene, but had no lasting effects from the injury. He just couldn't sit right for a while.

Also it happened to Lewis during the Lewis and Clark expedition. Because he took the one-eyed and half blind soldier hunting with him whilst wearing tan deer-like clothes. Wasn't that choice brilliant?

Aw I hate it when my computer eats stuff!!

That's why I make sure to copy anything long that I type into Notebook before posting. Because it likes eating posts.

Also if a character is stabbed in the main vein/artery in the arm, how long will it take them to bleed out? One guy is in a sword duel and gets stabbed by his opponent, rules say no intervention including medical, and I need to know if he can live long enough to kill her and die in his childhood best friend's arms.

Also if a character is stabbed in the main vein/artery in the arm, how long will it take them to bleed out? One guy is in a sword duel and gets stabbed by his opponent, rules say no intervention including medical, and I need to know if he can live long enough to kill her and die in his childhood best friend's arms.

You can survive a severed brachial artery (though obviously it's serious and requires immediate medical attention). It's not as immediate a death as let's say a carotid artery cut, which would cause the victim to black out pretty much right away from the blood pressure drop, but it happens pretty fast. You sever any artery, you only really have a minute or so until they black out, because major arteries gush blood when they're severed, and it's bad.

Okay!

Here's a question I've had for a while:
Is alcohol really a good painkiller/antiseptic or is that a Hollywood thing? And if it's not, then what could I use as an antiseptic in a story where until the very end of the series the only accessable medical help was a teenaged self-taught field medic and a seamstress who stitched people's wounds shut?
Namely some injuries are:
Arm torn off by a falling branch
Shot to the arm and minor concussion
Bullet wound grazes
Long, jagged gashes from sharp sticks
Cut-off fingers and another concussion
Broken ankle
And one guy gets shot in the shoulder and then the jerk who shot him dislocated it right after.

Drinking alcohol can ease pain to some extent. Wouldn't recommend unless you have nothing else. I wouldn't use drinking alcohol as an antiseptic, but rubbing alcohol would do just fine. H2O2 doesn't sting as badly, but it does sort of go bad, I think? Like over time (a good amount of time though) because of its chemical makeup turns into water. Rubbing alcohol usually is good for preventing infection, and H2O2 for treating minor infections. However, a wound should not be treated with either of those right away because it can delay healing. Basically the wound should be rinsed with clean water, and preventing infection comes later.

Noice!

Disclaimer: don't check my search history
I'm a writer and I want to be a doctor, so you can imagine what that looks like

Oh, I can imagine….

I wouldn't use Google for that, that's stuff I use my friends for!

Most of the stuff I search is medical, so maybe it's not too suspicious

For every sketchy topic you research, look at one more baby name website. That's a writer thing to do, yeah? (Don't listen to my advice please.)

*Maybe
The euthanasia coaster is a rollercoaster that's designed to kill the riders
Google it and look at the second result
Some random letters are in italic
It's…really creepy
Maybe there's a hidden message?

LOL sorry. It's my fault you googled that.

Oh, for sure. I mean, look at this thread. Look at all these people sharing cool info!

No it was for WYR

Oh heck no I ain't doing that!