"The Doctor is in" Topic

I was looking for a figure to represent a Surgeon for my Red vs. Blue project, and thanks to 79th PA for directing me to this guy

I see he hasn't started his day yet……

Where is the figure from? I could use another butcher for a couple of vignettes. Thanks, Tom

That figure is not historically accurate: he has all of his fingers, and he has been doing this for a long while (gray-white hair)! Most surgeons had lost at least one finger amputating limbs… Speed was critical to the patient's chances of survival! Surgeon's fingers, patient's testicles, were often inadvertently taken off, as well…

He also appears to have washed up before operating. They never washed up before surgery, only afterwards, in the ACW period. Will and Charlie Mayo were among the first to wash up, before surgery. Their father, Dr. William Worrell Mayo, admonished his son, Will Jr., not to wash up, until after doing surgery… Will Sr. had a surgical coat he wore: it had dirty needles, stuck in the lapels, with thread attached, for closing sutures; there were blood stains, and bits of dried tissue stuck to it, per history accounts. Reading about those days, and how Mayo Sr. worked, are appalling, but he didn't know any better.

Brothers Will and Charlie were among the earliest adopters of cleanliness to prevent infections. Those were dark times, for patients, but the light at the end of the tunnel, was finally in sight… Will and Charlie's infection rates dropped, dramatically, and the rest is history. Cheers!

Looks like the surgeon in Zulu.

Yes, Conte surgeon from their Zulu range.

Nice job on the figure. I like how you painted the grey shirt, and will probably do mine the same way.

Those must be very hard to come by. Nice figure.

Inspector Morse meets Jack the Ripper …

If that's a 28mm figure, I'm giving up painting right now. The flesh, in particular, is brilliant.

DBDD

Thanks, but he is a 54mm