The Man Who Did Surgery on 16 Dying Soldiers by Following an Instruction Manual
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A man is searching for a book amidst chaos, looking for the one with the perfect amount of information he needs to save lives. He’s aboard a navy ship, frantically hurrying to save precious time. After finding the book he’s looking for, he quickly reads it up to gain the information he desperately needs.
How would you feel if you learned that the man you’d just entrusted your life to was an impostor? That he’d only learned how to perform your surgery a few minutes ago from a manual? After performing dozens of surgeries that were all successful, who exactly was this man? Let’s get into it!
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@@mdavie123 ratio
Love your content Brew.
Wow... If he could do that after speed reading a book, imagine what this dude could have done had he actually gone to medical school...
He did go to medical school and got rejected at the advanced medicine part because lack of education
@@AdrianOkay no, I mean like if he actually went all the way through and got a medical degree.
@@robw3610 he could be a Genius omg
He will be doctor strange before the accident.
@@AdrianOkay Yeah, well, he clearly didn't have a lack of intellect. There are lots of really smart people who don't have formal education. That doesn't mean they can't or haven't done incredible things in their field
The fact that he successfully performed all the surgeries is insane!!
For real tho 😮😅
Exactly I could never
a genius in surgery for sure
I can barely successfully perform getting up in the morning 😂
Out of context but he kinda looks like Elon Musk fr
My great-grandmother was in a similar situation. She didn't faked to be a doctor, but she was the only somewhat medically skilled person around, so she performed surgery without any kind of medical degree. During WWII, at the siege of Budapest, every doctor in the region was ordered to the front to treat the wounded soldiers.
My great-grandmother wanted to be a doctor, but as a peasant girl, it was impossible for her to get into med school. But the local doctor liked her and allowed her to come with him, when he made his visits. My great-grandmother picked up as much medical knowledge, as she could, even tough he was fully aware, that she will never have a chance to get a degree and work as a doctor. Twenty years later during the siege she became the most medically skilled person in the region - and everyone knew that. So the civilians brought their sick and wounded to my great-grandmother, who treated them as well, as she could.
My grandmother later met a guy, who was treated by my great-grandmother as a kid. He tripped and his belly was cut open by barbed wire. When he got to my great-grandmother, his intestines were falling out. My great-grandmother put everything back and sewed his belly together. I don't know, how long he lived, but he was well into his adulthood, when he met my grandmother, his saviours daughter.
So cool!
That is very fascinating and heartfelt thank you for sharing! Your great grandmother is a hero ❤️
That's insanely cool story, Respect
This would be an amazing movie
Could I get her name so I can read more on her?
That' crazy. Surprised no one offered to formally educate him after knowing of his successful surgeries
Still an imposter.
It's like giving a flying license to Frank in Catch me if you can.
@@LathropLdST Honestly, yeah. Worth it.
I mean, Frank got an insanely good job irl, helping catch others like himself (after a short stint in prison, and with supervision).
Probably because he aided the enemy forces at the time by patching them up when he was not obligated to. The possibility of treason.
@@caelestisnox7045 That's not a thing, you're actually supposed to treat friend and foe alike as a proper doctor.
Troops on both sides sometimes don't understand, but a doctor swears to help regardless when getting their certification, and it's taken quite seriously. Same as if someone has First Aid, you're expected to help people in need of said first aid.
@@LathropLdST in my country there was an “architect” that designed many buildings without any former education and despite safery concerns, all his buildings have lasted centuries with no issues, he was awarded an honorary architecture degree by the state’s university post mortem.
He did the real life equivalent of reading a skill book in Fallout.
i think this is a token grabber
MASH did an episode based on this guy. Hawkeye raked his fictional counterpart over the coals when he found out the guy wasn't licensed. And then he immediately ordered the guy to go home and finish medical school because he was such a good surgeon.
such a good episode!!
Would anybody know off the top of their head what season / episode this was? I remember it but only vaguely.
@@CerealKiller187 s1e18 dear dad again
@@CerealKiller187 It took some hunting, but I found it. The episode is "Dear Dad...Again."
@@AtarahDerek wow, thank you for taking the time to do that! Really appreciate it
Ok, he is incredibly impressive but isn't there anybody impressed with how detailed the book he used as reference
It was a medical book what do you expect “uhh get a needle and some of your grandma’s yarn and start sowing their skin”
@@toast6375 thanks captain obvious.
In case you haven't opened a medical book in your life, there are terms and illustrations that only medical practitioners would understand. The book he used is detailed enough that a layman can comprehend it in a short span of time. There's no such book as "Surgery for Dummies" yet here we are
Obviously it has to be very detailed and specific considering there are people’s lives at stake lol
@@bushcatbandit2566 of course. But authors of these sort of books would presume that their reader would have at least know the basic in medicine such as a practitioner or a student -- which the madlad in the video was neither of.
Like I said, there are medical terms that glossary could not completely define.
@@AiSyYoo well he's not exactly a total layman. He made an attempt to legitimately earn his medical license, and he's probably had to pick up things to convincingly pass as biology/medical expert for a decade.
He was the greatest doctor that never was.
Bro really skipped the horrors of medical school 😂
Imagine having to do surgeries while you didn't have to go to school first while also getting paid
@@criminalsaint9611 “this mentally ill child seems mature enough to pilot this death machine”
@@criminalsaint9611 Wouldn't know anything about that. Anime is for weirdos without a life, incels or unemployees living in basements. Or all of the above.
@@Unknown_Ooh What category do the couples who watch anime together after they get home from work to unwind fall in?
@@Unknown_Ooh the holy trinity of being a lifeless unemployed incel
Reddit users
Twitter users
Anime watchers
@@kollepii1011 jesus christ what a generalization
If this were fiction people would say it was too unbelievable.
Honestly this does sound like fiction
Not that I don't believe it
Real life often sounds more like fiction than fiction ever does.
Mark Twain said something along the lines of "truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense" and it's the first thing that came to my mind after Brew mentioned all surgeries were successful.
I mean, a lot of this comes from the guy’s own account of his life, so I’d take it with a massive grain of salt
Actually there are a lot of surgeons who do specialized surgeries that will read case studies and surgical books as a refresher before operating. This is a pretty common thing in the med-surgical world of today but at least they are licensed and insured physicians.
Yeah but those surgeons have actually studied medicine for 6+ years 😭
Umm, those doctors have YEARS of surgical experience under their belt. Updating existing knowledge is cake. "Learning" how to operate from scratch in 5min is a criminal assault charge.
The main reason doctors go to school isn't for them to learn something better than everyone else, it's for other people to confirm that they know what they are doing, and to track responsibility for when something goes wrong. Learning how to do surgery from a book or from the internet is probably not as impressive as you think. This is true for all medical professions, from your GP to psychiatrists. These kind of people do not know anything more about an uncommon illness than you would know by skimming a wikipedia page. There's way too much for one person to know. They are not expected to know everything, they will learn on demand the same ways laymen do, by using Google.
So what this did was this but faster and better XD
@@LaitoChen It's only a charge if someone dies or something goes wrong. Then again i wouldn't want a person without any medical knowledge working on me. But i guess you get what you get and you pray it turns out ok.
This guy the type of dude who would start studying for the exam when it was being handed out
and score more than that the topper kid
@@nizu9544 he would be that kid
The test was his study time lol
Imagine spies being medics and just poisoning their patients as a war tactic
that's why the hypocrite oath it's all about
@@derederekat9051 but what if they crossed their fingers
Thats actually less effective than just severely wounding the enemy then leaving them to take up resources in the enemy backline recovering
Yeah I'm pretty sure that's considered a war crime.
more like a war crime
HE NEVER SAW CATHERINE AGAIN 😭
man living as both TF2 Spy AND Medic
He could be any one of us...
@@herbalyzoltan409 He could be in this very room!
While looking like Heavy
@@zachtwilightwindwaker596 he could be you
@@zillasaiyan1m274 He could be me.
What an amazing life. He probably could have been a real surgeon if he stopped conning long enough to actually study at medical school.
well he was rejected for not having the correct highschool diploma had they accepted him i doubt he would have ever needed to con anyone.
Do you mean he would’ve been an accredited surgeon? He performed surgeries successfully so that makes him a real surgeon.
Props to whoever wrote the manual, and him for being able to understand it that quickly
He sounds more competent than a lot of doctors I've seen or heard about. 😱
Bruh what are you on about
@@Doot139 you know not all doctors are saints???
@@Doot139 Honey just look it up yourself, doctors aren't all angels, they could well be devil's on earth
This man had zero medical knowledge though. Just because he can perform some surgeries doesn't make him a doctor because he lacks the vast array of knowledge you need to become a competant doctor
@@sarathomas8499 what are you talking about???
Imagine what he could accomplish if he actually HAD medical training.
Me except I fail
yeah the same thing without a video made about it
Why should he waste years to learn a skill that can clearly be learned in minutes?
Clearly the message here is that medicine is easy and anyone can do it.
It's not rocket surgery
Anyone can do it but a few can do it right
On the surface its easy. Medicine is hard because of the vast array of knowledge you need to become a competant doctor. Anyone can recognise your average case of diabetes after some simple history taking. But a competant doctor can distinguish diabetes from rarer diseases with similar symptoms
This dude performed surgeries on thousands of people successfully, was rich, had a gf, had a lot of jobs, died twice and got away with all of it is pure genius.
I'm originally from NB and yet never heard the legend of this guy. I'm surprised since the place is small enough that anyone with a story worth telling got talked about a lot.
Also from NB!
Same here
I’m from Halifax!
I have mixed feelings about this story... On one hand it's quite the feat to perform multiple life saving surgeries with nothing but a few minutes of reading and in war times people can't always be that picky, but on the other hand the guy was willing to steal anyone's identity for his own personal gain and that I can't agree with. I think I'd be willing to forgive the unlicensed surgeries as he seemed to be doing everything right there and at least had the morals to not care who's life he saved, but I still can't really overlook how scummy everything else he did was. Guy shoulda just went to medical school right out the gate rather then betray so many peoples' trust with a talent like that, though for all ik that wasn't interesting enough for him or he would've, not like we can raise the dead to ask the reasoning behind it all now though
Well considering what the road to medical school is like, lots of qualified people wash out for not very good reasons.
Now, the question is if things were quite so bad then...
@@alexipestov7002 yeah idk, I understand it's a hard path to follow for most but it just seems odd for that to be such a last second decision to become an unlicensed doctor when he clearly had the ability to get a degree in that field, though ig for some it depends on the primary learning type used in a course. I'm a kinesthetic (hands on) learner so did pretty bad in high school ngl so any class big on lectures I'd skip if it had been allowed ^^'
"as he seemed to be doing everything right there"
Well of course, he was doing it by the book!
@@discordiacreates6669 he didnt get past the advanced medicines part because of his performance or whatever before taking med school or whatever
@@yamiru3417 ah ok
I need his photogenic memory
Wear HoloLens and take a photo 😎
His speed reading worked because if you guys didnt know, An insaneway to remember something is right after u read or while reading/ trying to memorize something, get an adrenaline rush and your brain will completely memorize it. Some people have used it when studying before an exam for finals in college but this man most definitely used it here because his body was pumping with adrenaline because he thought he would get caught and arrested but that speed reading probably saved him and he easily memorized it because of the adrenaline
Wouldnt recommend doing it occasionally, last thing you want is getting adrenaline everytime you need to learn something.
@@arntry8072 im just saying that he probably had this happen to him
Yeah I remember speed reading some topics before entering the exam Hall and I could remember it so clearly afterwards lol.
ptsd is just your brain being filled with so much adrenaline and cortisol that it goes "hey, maybe i should keep this out of the archives and just put it on the front desk for easy access"
I'm impressed he could keep all these identities straight ! My head was spinning just listening to all he did ! 😂
Man, thats why we should rate people based on merit. If this guy can do several surgeries successfully without certification, that to me means he is a doctor. Dont care about not being licenced. If you can do something well, then i dont care what papers you dont have .
I wouldn’t trust this guy as my doctor
Neither would I trust him even if he was a last choice, people like this are high risk to actual patients and proffesionalism
@@yeboxxxchannel2505 Yet many actual professionals fail while he succeeded.
Isn't that quite strange to you?
@@hungerxhunger2548 a Broken clock is right twice a day
@@ranbojd1070 more successful 10 surgeries without any deaths seems to be more than luck or a clock right twice a day.
The guy knew what he was doing, how to find the information needed and how to put it into practice.
Probably putting him into some medical course or even as a instructor/teacher would be a good idea, instead of casting him aside.
Perhaps in the earlier centuries, he would be actually considered an excellent doctor. Our current social dynamics and bureaucracy changed a lot over time.
As messed up as this is, this is proof that there's no excuse to not know how to do something with the internet and books.
This is how so much of IT problems are solved.
Finding a good source to solve a problem is a good thing to know.
Life back then is quite wild man. Imagine waking up and deciding to be someone else. No internet. No one to track you down. Such freedom is no more...
Thank you for doing the ad integration before the main video, instead of disrupting the flow. It makes the video more enjoyable.
Imagine if this kind of thing would have happened today! I hope y’all never have to experience being operated on by a non-doctor!
Your saying this like it’s possible to happen now
@@Wemby73 You never know.
Better to be saved by someone unknowledgeable desperate to keep their own life than someone with tons of knowledge, but apathetic, and possibly inept.
Or something like that...
If this hapend today, he would end up in jail once they find out that he's a fraud. Even though he saved many people and called him a hero, once they find out that he's not a real doctor and not only didn't have a license, but also didn't go to medical school at all, they would take that all away and put him in jail for endangering the patients and posing as a doctor and identity theft. He would have become a hero to zero and act like hes evil or something and didn't literitly save lives after only taking a few minutes reading a book. There would be petitions going on where they want him to be free and give him a proper medical education so he could legaly save lives as he should
@@bigboomer1013 wdym as he should he risked a bunch of peoples lives for money
This is the opposite of the man who performed a surgery with a 300% fatality rate.
300%?! So he did surgery and most the medical staff died too?
He litterally did it by the book.
Better than surgeons that cheated on exams I tell you
I had to get surgery for pneumonia, and when the Dr. came in to prep I asked him “So how’d you do in med school?” He looked at me laughed and said “Fair.” He did a great job though! 😂
The ones who do “fair” usually end up as pretty good surgeons.
I was eating cereal, and the "The More You Know" caught me off guard. I nearly choked.
17:51 He maxed out his Charisma in Fallout.
Honestly, I kinda feel bad he never saw Katherine again. It would've been the perfect ending if he married her, and put and end to his identity thefts. But sadly the world doesn't work that way.
Honestly, he kinda reminds me of the "Ultimate Imposter" from the Danganronpa series, able to just steal anyone's identity with extreme levels of success.
This was a lot of fun to listen to. Curious if Brew would cover Frank Abignale Jr some time
"See, mom? He can saved 16 peoples without being an actual doctor! I ain't need medical degrees anymore"
"Anyway, that's how I lost my medical license"
~Medic from TF2
This is what instantly popped into my head when I started the video too lol.
Every time brew posts, it’s like Christmas repeating
Absolutely love the old school pronunciation of Toronto 🙂.
Love your content Brew.
I really liked the way you did the changing clothes/uniforms. Great video, thanks!
For someone that did not want to serve in the army, he joined the army a surprising number of times.
This is amazing... Never knew about this and it just goes to show what certain situations will push people to do.... Hopefully that made sense....
Dude was the epitome of "Hold on, lemme Google this" before the internet was even born.
8:47 That "tranna" proves Brew is a legit Canadian.
I don't know what's more impressive, the fact that he committed or the fact that he actually saved lives.
I'm glad that this guy passed in our time line !!! I'm so proud of him He is part of the history
My son has that same kind of brain. He has no formal training but once he watches a quick video or reads on any topic, he can do it
Your alliterations never cease to amuse me, Brew.
This is fascinating!
I heard a really short story about this, just about the 16 he saved. I have no clue where and when I heard it, but it really made me think: "memory is the strongest superpower". The only problem with it ia that other people might not remember things
I always say that having a photographic memory can make my life easier lol. Unfortunately I dont
if a man is that good, let him be.
11:38
The "Baffled brotherhood bewildered by the boldest burglary" line has to be up there with the 1970's reporter gem
"The blast blastered brubble beyond believeable bounds" when 'muricans basically decided to TNT a stranded dead whale on the beach.
The whale incident occurred in Florence, Oregon 😂
He became the very thing he sought only to disguise himself as...
A surgeon.
Unbased profile name and picture.
@@supersophisticated9943 What are you even saying dude?
These are a cool format! Nice ❤ love the material!
You somehow channeled your inner Rod Serling, Alfred Hitchcock, and Robert Stack, in the intro... all three, simultaneously. Well done, sir... well done!!! 😰😎
Yay! Nice to know my state was featured a lot for the first time ever in anyone’s video
I used to think, brew fills the niche that Salmonella academy left behind, but for while now, I just enjoy you for you. The video always get better as time went on
Good video! Already watched it!
Why am I getting an Osamu Tezuka's "Black Jack" vibe from this story? It might just be me... (Considering that in the manga/anime, Black Jack did indeed go to medical school but his medical license was revoked due to helping people before he received said license.)
I am a SURGEON!
I love these videos.. I learn a lot every time.. 😁😅 btw coffee is LIFE ❤
the fact that he did so many jobs under others peoples names is crazy
Great tutorial, thanks man!
*dies laughing from the “The More You Know” moment*
He is secretly a manwha main character. One of those genius doctors
That sign in Lawrence is completely accruate
Where is that sign? I’m from Lawrence and never heard of it lol
I can feel my back aching just by hearing his life story. Dude did so much lol
As a person living in Halifax it’s insane to know one of the best conman walked down the streets and passed by building I pass all the time
Back in the day according to my dad who is a doctor, the barbers could perform surgery, especially in small villages, there wasn't a specialized doctor. It was more a trade and mentorship, where the master would teach their apprentice the skills required. His mom was a nurse and performed a few surgeries as well.
So apparently only in modern times it has become so specialized, but most basic doctors learn to perform everything in med school, but don't do them now since they rather avoid any legal action or lawsuits. But there are a lot more people capable of performing surgery if an urgent situation arises and the necessity is there.
The job was called barber surgeon until around the 18th century when barbers and surgeons split with surgeons joining the ranks of physicians as medical practitioners (prior to this surgery was thought of as lesser practice by physicians who preferred potions and tonics).
Training him in secret and saying he must surve in the navy or he will be sent to prison seems like a more sensable thing to do.
surgeon simulator speed run
“I did 16 surgeries with a 100% success rate!”
“Wow, that’s crazy, you must’ve gone to a really good medical school.”
“Medical school?”
👌👌👌
One time I said to a friend in church that I could read while doing anything and he said so could he. I then said "I could read while flying a helicopter and if your sitting in the seat next to me and ask me what I'm reading, I'll tell you - How to fly a helicopter 🚁".
little does he know he shouldn't feel nervous because real surgeons don't know what they're doing either
I can feel it, literaly need hours of study for exams to just forget everything later.
@@deauthorsadeptus6920 never operate on anybody ever
I’ve been listening to brew for years and hearing him talk about Halifax (the city I live in) was just so cool. Never thought I’d even hear him mention Halifax
Ayyyyy new episode
Wow, even though doing those surgeries are extremely reckless and dangerous when you’re not even qualified, I’m really impressed by this dude. Doing successful surgeries by speed reading an instruction manual? That’s crazy!
"Pure Rascality"
I love that.
Sucks that he never saw Catherine again though.
I wanna know what book he had, if he learned more in 15 minutes than I can learn in med school for 4 years that book must be full of stuff.
Half-blood prince vibes
If he put effort into a real career, he would have done so well 🤣 i must say im impressed
Man goes into people like I go into my PC when it needs a new part
IRL tf2 medic
You don't do that with the dandelion that's for the buttercup
I learned it with dandelions, but there are no buttercups here
This guy's so unhinged yet capable
I simply LOVE y'all's work, but the Puns...
Anyway, it's interesting that such a master of disguises wasn't good as an actor because he sure fooled a lot of people in his life. Performing so many surgeries, which all of his patients survived, is a testament of how smart he really was even without a medical degree.
He had medical degree, his coledge just rejected him
I MISS CHILL AND GRILL!!! 😭😭😭😭
What happen to them?
@@corundumkrabble5035 idk but they appear less and less
@@corundumkrabble5035 They got abducted by the aliens 👽
😂 man if I survived, I won't be mad at all
Got to give it to the man. He was a better imposter than I am on among us.... ima head out
German Brew Terrifies Me.
"Doctor you sure this will work?"
"I HAVE NO IDEA!"
This is why exactly why the written word and books revolutionized mankind, why scientific journals are published, etc. If not for that one book, all of them would be dead. And to think, today in our modern world, people legitimately believe reading is unnecessary.
Aww man, I love learning languages but I was all excited because at first I thought you were going to advertise a learning app about German watch making.
“Are you a qualified medical doctor?” “No, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.”
I'm NOT a SURGEON doctor Shawn! I'm NOT a SURGEON mr. Shawn!