I'm not sure if you're aware of this but that exact line of reasoning is why for centuries, many western doctors didn't do surgery. Surgeons didn't take the hippocratic oath. Surgery didn't start to be seen as a real medical science until the 1700s and didn't become cemented as a common from of treatment 'til around the invention of anesthetics and antiseptics. Surgery was always done throughout history of course. There's the famous late Medieval case of Prince Henry of Monmouth, who entered a complex surgery to remove an arrowhead from his skull, preformed by royal surgeon John Bradmore. Like basically all surgeons of his era, he had a background in blacksmithing rather than medicine.

>>6278 I remember playing Adult Swim's knockoff version of that game.

>>6280 >he had a background in blacksmithing rather than medicine. And thanks to that background, he was able to design and craft an entirely new medical tool himself in order to save the prince. Who later became Henry V. Ever since then, Henry would be painted from the side in all his portraits, even after his death, because he had a nasty scar/deformity on one side of his face from the wound. I don't think anyone has featured John Bradmore in a video game, but considering how things are nowadays, that is for the best.

>>6280 surgeons usually would be barbers, who would also be your dentist. Basically anything that involved cutting, mending, removing of stuff from human body would be just one guy who wasn't squeamish. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barber_surgeon