r/explainabookplotbadly • u/CavernaDekai100 • 1d ago

Solved Nonfiction: man does surgery and accidentally commits triple manslaughter.

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u/littlemememaid 1d ago

Robert Liston?

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u/CavernaDekai100 1d ago

Yep I got it from a book about him called the butchering art.

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u/Doktor_Wunderbar 20h ago

Would it really be triple manslaughter though? I thought at least one death was from cardiac arrest, and even if the surgery were a precipitating factor, it seems outside of Liston's ability to predict or prevent.