Science Memes

9223 readers

2300 users here now

Welcome to c/science_memes @ Mander.xyz!

A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.

Rules

Don't throw mud. Behave like an intellectual and remember the human.
Keep it rooted (on topic).
No spam.
Infographics welcome, get schooled.

Sister Communities

Science and Research

Biology and Life Sciences

Physical Sciences

Humanities and Social Sciences

Practical and Applied Sciences

Memes

Miscellaneous

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

407

They're everywhere!!! (mander.xyz)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

36 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

He made them scrub with bleach water until he couldn't smell corpse smell anymore.

[–] Anticorp 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Wait. For real? They had so much bacteria on their hands that they smelled of the dead, and they were going right into surgery with live humans? Damn, surgery must have been a death sentence back then.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Not just surgery, but they were also working in labor and delivery, so they were getting all that on mothers and their newborn babies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

They were practicing surgery on cadavers between deliveries. Gotta keep your skills up during your stint in maternity