Shrapnel Removal: Dig deep into your heart! Literally.

[Haine]

I wish there was more use for improvised surgical tools, aside from "Oh someone stole the scalpel and the fabricator isn't very close so i'll use a glass shard". The fact that you can only perform surgery on surgical tables really removes any necessity to use improvised tools as there is a huge pile of them next to any surgical table. It'd be nice if you could perform surgery on regular tables, or even on the ground using tools you'd carry in a toolbox, or something you can get from the general area. Basically the only improvised tool that is used a lot is the zippo as you can cauterize wounds.

you can also use beds in place of surgical tables, and unlike tables you don't have to KO someone for it to work

you can also use a fork as a saw

yes. don't ask me how that works, it just does.

As a Head Surgeon I've asked barman to get me drunk so I could remove bullets from myself with a glass shard. I don't recall if it worked but it was funny at the time.

I feel like more Medical Mcgyvering would be cool.

I kinda wish ducktape wasn't exclusively a traitor item, would be neat to scrounge up bedsheets and ducktape into impromptu bandages. Also heating knives to sterilize them so you can increase the chances of ghetto surgery success (while also introducing burn damage) might be fun.

I'd like to add more impromptu surgery stuff, yeah.
I wouldn't be surprised if removing shrapnel didn't work during drunk surgery for whatever goddamn reason, surgery code is a horrible spaghetti mess right now.

I had hoped to start a surgery rewrite with SpyGuy since he's visiting IRL right now, but we got caught up in just relaxing and doing a bunch of dumb couple bullshit instead (no regrets)
it desperately needs a rewrite, though. one day we'll manage it, ~one day~
until then I'll just tack on more crap to the mess we have