Some of you might find the video graphic

Some of you might find the video graphic but I think that's actually the problem and that's what this video is about. The Krukenberg procedure. After World War 1, a lot of soldiers came back with hand injuries. A doctor invented a surgery that could give hand amputees basic function back. A lot of people didn't get it because it looked bad. Now the surgery itself is absolutely genius. You have two bones in your forearms and what they do is separate those two bones, wrap the skin around the muscle that twist your wrist can actually bring those parts together like tongs. This has some advantages over even the most modern prosthetic devices because you can feel things, you can have proprioception. This is especially important for blind amputees because they can actually still feel their way around. It's also much cheaper prosthetic devices are unbelievably expensive. And so in this can be genuinely a life saving surgery. And yet it is incredibly unpopular. And one of the main reasons is just aesthetics, which I think is ridiculous because that is not a problem with this surgery. With us, that's a problem with our culture. Now modern prosthetics have gotten really good. That's another big reason for the decline of this surgery. But there's still probably lots of people who would benefit from this surgery who don't get it because of the stigma associated. Science invented this amazing solution for so many people. Like with so many other things, culture almost always comes out on top for better or for worse.