Peg leg, what can go wrong?

[nekys]

How the hell can installing a peg leg end up in someone having their torso, both lungs and heart almost destroyed? One would think that with a decent skill in medicine (and even without one) such a thing would be impossible.

[Astasia]

The doctor had a seizure mid-operation. Or they tripped while holding scissors. Or they sneezed while making a cut.

Catastrophic failures with high medicine skill are extremely rare, but sometimes stuff just happens. Sometimes people die while getting a tooth pulled IRL, just something as basic as that. In RimWorld they don't just tie a log to your leg and call it good, it's surgically inserted into your stump of a limb, it's a surgery that requires anesthesia and comes with risks of over-cutting. Just because.

Maybe some day peg legs will be made apparel you just equip instead of having to surgically install. That would be a pretty substantial nerf to medical training though. In the mean time, it creates interesting stories like this. "Remember that time Bob tried to install a peg leg and accidentally stabbed Jim in the heart during the procedure?"

[Wraith_Magus]

Haha, you fool, you underestimate the stupidity of a pawn with 6 medicine skill! I try to train my pawns into being slightly less lethal with a scalpel by having them castrate excess animals before I have them slaughtered. It's much messier than ordering a slaughter, but it has the same results.
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The "MINOR" mistakes in a surgery to snip their sausage can involve things like nearly lopping off three legs and stabbing a cow in the brain and liver at the same time.

Although one of my favorites is still "catastrophically failing" to remove a bandit's heart... by scratching her in the arm and not even touching the torso...
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[nekys]

dude, this guy had 12 medical skill...and he thought the way to put the peg leg on is to shove it down the patient's throat and keep pushing it until it comes out the bum leg. I can understand critical failure, but this is a whole new level of stupid.

[CloudSeeker]

Once had a doctor that cut of the prisoners head..... like seriously? How did you do that? Operating with a cleaver or something?

[argrond]

It's Rimworld, you never know where exactly your novice paramedic will attach that peg leg to with some suspicious locally-harvested herbal medicine...

[Steelfleece]

Originally posted by CloudSeeker:

Once had a doctor that cut of the prisoners head..... like seriously? How did you do that? Operating with a cleaver or something?

The doctor stares in disbelief at the now-headless patient. He'd done everything according to the diagram on leg amputation! Then the nurse suddenly has an idea, grabs the diagram from the doctor's hands, turns it upside down and hands it back. The doctor looks again, and smacks his forehead.

[Radiosity]

> The doctor looks again, and smacks his forehead.

He fails catastrophically and accidentally cuts off his own leg.

[Wraith_Magus]

Originally posted by Steelfleece:

The doctor stares in disbelief at the now-headless patient. He'd done everything according to the diagram on leg amputation! Then the nurse suddenly has an idea, grabs the diagram from the doctor's hands, turns it upside down and hands it back. The doctor looks again, and smacks his forehead.

Did he by any chance have the red skin and crustacean genes?

[CloudSeeker]

Originally posted by Steelfleece:

Originally posted by CloudSeeker:

Once had a doctor that cut of the prisoners head..... like seriously? How did you do that? Operating with a cleaver or something?

The doctor stares in disbelief at the now-headless patient. He'd done everything according to the diagram on leg amputation! Then the nurse suddenly has an idea, grabs the diagram from the doctor's hands, turns it upside down and hands it back. The doctor looks again, and smacks his forehead.

Sounds about right. Maybe I should say that it was a child that practiced to become a doctor at this point.

[TRK]

Originally posted by nekys:

How the hell can installing a peg leg end up in someone having their torso, both lungs and heart almost destroyed? One would think that with a decent skill in medicine (and even without one) such a thing would be impossible.

you put faith in your pawns to do something right?

everyone knows to be on the rim your required to have a soft lobotomy...

[chaosbringer42]

Originally posted by nekys:

How the hell can installing a peg leg end up in someone having their torso, both lungs and heart almost destroyed? One would think that with a decent skill in medicine (and even without one) such a thing would be impossible.

Theres a 1% minimum chance of failure for surgery no matter what (even with a 20 stat surgeon with the best possible modifiers). It can then roll a catastrophic fail, making it far...far worse.

As for your specific issue, your surgeon was mocing the peg leg into place, tripped, and speared the end of it right into the patients torso. This caused damage to the torso, heart, and lungs. Catastrophic failure in a nutshell.

[Mesond]

Right, I got the peg leg. Now to grab the scal-
TRIP! Oh dear, I appear to have jabbed the torso.
Try to move back in a state of panic.
TRIP! Oh dear, I hit the lung.

Now to flip table because I ate without one. Then go on a kiling spree because moody.

[psychotron666]

Cutting and cauterizing the leg improperly caused a blood clot which then clotted the heart and lung. The person now has excruciating pain when anything remotely touches his torso.

[CloudSeeker]

Originally posted by psychotron666:

Cutting and cauterizing the leg improperly caused a blood clot which then clotted the heart and lung. The person now has excruciating pain when anything remotely touches his torso.

Can't happen in Rimworld however.

[Mesond]

Originally posted by CloudSeeker:

Originally posted by psychotron666:

Cutting and cauterizing the leg improperly caused a blood clot which then clotted the heart and lung. The person now has excruciating pain when anything remotely touches his torso.

Can't happen in Rimworld however.

A lot of things can't happen in rimworld. That's why people make up things that make sense if it happens.

Rimworld has never, ever provided that much immersion in reality. We have to use our imagination.

It's about coming up with reasons that can make sense for the situation. Rimworld provides a template (a big one at that). But we have to fill in the gaps ourselves.