Which is more humane -- drilling holes within someone's skull or slicing into his brain?
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Why would you ask this?
This depends on why you are doing it. We drill holes into patients skulls to alleviate intracranial pressure - They're called Bore Holes. Though they are only used when adjectives else has failed.
We don't "slice" into your brain. In fact plentifully of neurosurgery does not involve cutting into the brain at all, and is today very minimally invasive.
If this is curiosity consequently fine, if this is some sort of ethics debate then get lost and revise a little medicine before you try to talk us about the ethics of our practice.
What a silly question! What is your point?
We still drill holes in skulls, and we still slice into brains (but not for lobotomies).
Brain tissue doesn't feel misery, but you have to go through skin, skull and meninges to get at hand, and they all DO feel pain.
Drilling burr holes into skulls is still fairly common.
I guess the first question is: Is this person alive?
Second: What is the reason for doing any one?
Humane or not has little to do with it!
Either way, to bring back to the brain, you pretty much have to go through the skull one way or the other!
Well, I'd have to hold first hand experience in order to dispense you a definitive answer based on personal experience. So far...I've only drilled into my own hand & that be an accident. Slicing & drilling sound like the makings of a apposite Sci-Fi story. Too freaky for me. I'm into mellow stuff. I'd try taking an aspirin or two or wrapping my head with duct tape (like within that commercial for health care), before going under the tools of trepidation of a cracked scientist!
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