CHILD WARNING [child warning] Belarusian boy has tonsils removed without anesthetics

A lot of you have probably seen this one before.

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This was barbaric. Medical trauma for life. Why did they even need to remove them so badly ?

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It's actually a common operation, used to prevent recurrent tonsil infections in children. Belarus being so poor this hospital couldn't afford an anesthetic machine to keep the child safely unconscious throughout the procedure. For children who have had this done in the West their only memory of it is a sore throat afterwards and the doctors telling your parents to give you as much ice cream as you want.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonsillectomy

It's also an old video. Medical advice has changed more recently so tonsil infections aren't such a big deal to justify operation in these awful hospital conditions.

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That’s what I’ve learned, that it’s not something they should do regularly. Poor kid.

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