How Did this Surgeon Kill 3 People in 1 Operation?

Robert Liston: the surgeon with a 300% mortality rate
How did this man, a world-renowned doctor at the cutting edge of nineteenth-century medicine, come to be the only surgeon with a 300% mortality rate? The statistic is taken from one of his surgeries, which began much like any other day for Liston.

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Credit:
Created by Daniel Turner (B.A. (Hons) in History, University College London)
Script: Conan White
Narrator:

Chris Kane
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Sources

Books
Robert Liston, Practical Surgery (London, 1837)

Articles
Bill Thomas, ‘Saints and sinners: Robert Liston’, THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND BULLETIN, 94:2 (2012), pp. 64-65.

DJ Coltart, ‘Surgery Between Hunter and Lister: As Exemplified by the Life and Works of Robert Liston (1794-1847)’, Proceedings Royal Society of Medicine, 65 (1972), pp. 26-30.

Reginald Magee, ‘Surgery in the Pre-Anaesthetic Era: The Life and Work of Robert Liston’, Health and History, 2:1 (2000), pp. 121-133.

A Sharee Wright and Pickney J Maxwel, ‘Robert Liston, M.D. (October 28, 1794-December 7, 1847): The Fastest Knife in the West End’, The American Surgeon, 80:1 (2014), pp. 1-2.