That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for February 18, 2013

We can fix it with a hammer!

When they told me that it would cost an arm and a leg, I thought they were kidding.

And they’re still trying to sedate the patient …

The Ball-Peen Adjustment Applied to People.

I just now finished reading Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. And I come online to find this.I need some sleep.

Before gas anesthetics, the medical profession used the mallet of sleep…

“Can anybody remember if this is a gender reassignment or an appendectomy?”

pcolli— what the heck, while he’s here… just do both.

That was Russia – they were probably just baking bombs into bread.

That’s going to leave a tscar.

First recorded instance of tatoo removal?

no wonder, people hate going to the doctor.

Get a bigger hammer.

“The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature affects the cure.” —Voltaire

That hammer is mighty amusing.

I heard that doctor was a real chiseler.

Click-to-enlarge image can be found here. A smaller enlargement can be found at Mr. Melcher’s blog entry.The Surgeon Evgueni Vasilievich Pavlov in the Operating Theater (not this Pavlov) isn’t, as far as I can tell, shown online by its current-location.A different coloration, click-to-enlarge image can be found here. Another different coloration image can be found here. The artist‘s Wikipedia page (Google translated Russian Wikipedia page has more) and collection (more under Subcategories at each level).Third, of the 4 works, by this artist, that have, so far, appeared in Mr. Melcher’s blog, to also appear here.

Voting someone off the OPERATION! reality show.

Priapism cure…this might hurt!

YIKES!!!!!

Orthopedic surgeons are just frustrated furniture makers.

“You’ll feel a slight pressure”

Are you sure this isn’t the autopsy on the ‘alien’ body found after the Roswell ‘incident’.

The mallet would do it for me.

: DBAD case of hammer toe.

The John Henry of Surgery

“This is going to pinch a little.”

Here is another work by this artist.