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*SPOILER* Foot transplant? SPOILER


So my husband and I DVRed this movie, and aside from how awful and underdeveloped the plot was, how terribly BORING the first 35 minutes of the film were (I honestly was tempted to fast forward until something, anything happened) and even aside from how the movie was supposedly set in 1969 but the production crew apparently made zero effort to make the clothes, hairstyle, vocabulary or characters at all seem like they came from that year, my main concern was the following:

Do we even have the technology NOW IN THE PRESENT DAY to do a foot transplant? I mean, I am no historian, so I don't want to comment on whether the idea of harvesting organs for profit in the 60s was a plausible one, but I was really confused by the fact that they were harvesting an entire foot because some "rich guys daughter lost a foot in an accident". I mean, 1969 or not, do we even have the medical technology to take an entire foot from one person and transplant it onto another? I mean, I was under the impression that even if a person cut their OWN hand or foot off, and then went immediately to the hospital with said hand or foot on ice, that the doctors may or may not be able to reattach it with any success, let alone ensure that it will function properly. So I find it difficult to believe that in 1969, a group of hillbillys with one flunkout doctor (who wasn't even the one removing the parts and organs I may add) would have the ability to take a foot off of a poor girl (who may or may not even be a blood match for the rich guys daughter) put it on ice and then get it to said daughter and have it be reattached. Any thoughts? I mean does anybody know if a foot transplant is possible?

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oh come on! You're acting like knuckle-dragging hillbillies aren't capable to learn about immunosuppression, transfusion reactions, and infection. You hold your self all high and mighty with you edumacation and city life, but don't underestimate the power of genetic inbreeding of trailer trash hillbillies

"Life didn't pass me by....IT SAT ON MY HEAD!!!!! - Al Bundy

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@sillybilly77 hahahahahaha well played sir

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