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Operation Chekov - Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home (9/10) Movie CLIP (1986) HD

583K views · Oct 9, 2011 · 2:43 · 0 HN recommenders · 3 mentions · discussed 2015–2025

A movie clip from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home in which Dr. McCoy, appalled by primitive 20th-century medicine, tries to smuggle Chekov out of a hospital.

Why Hacker News points people here: Posted as a joke or pop-culture reference whenever threads touch on backward or barbaric medicine.

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JokejustifierJun 2015

“personally, i look forward to bones”

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" I rarely clip aneurysms now. All the skills that I slowly and painfully acquired to become an aneurysm surgeon have been rendered obsolete by technological change. Although neurosurgery is no longer what it once was, the neurosurgeon’s loss has been the patient’s gain. " so nice to read this many of the entrenched remain so through superstition at the loss of progress, but to read someone speak highly of a practice that rendered a section of their skill set obsolete is heartening i have family who work in trauma and they condescendingly balk at my excitement over new medical technology: link link personally, i look forward to bones: this video

Joketcj_phxDec 2016

“A classic fun movie clip”

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I can't match you on credentials or acronyms, but I'm pretty good at figuring out what matters for improving my own health. "Should cardiologists evaluate their obsession with LDLs and HDLs?" - link (April 2016) Saw this link on the sidebar: "Slow Medicine: Pressing Pause on Statins For Primary Prevention" - link (December 4 2016) I would estimate that the cholesterol fetish has about 2 more years before it begins to slide into irrelevance, and the field begins to refocus on the causes behind the symptom. A classic fun movie clip: this video

in “A Few Billionaires Are Turning Medical Philanthropy on Its Head” · view on HN
JoketoomuchtodoMay 2025

“Shades of”

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What's wild to me is the amount of effort and resources that have gone into weight loss around exercise and diet only for us to discover it is a hormone and brain chemistry issue around the gut and reward centers (GLP-1s). Shades of this video

in “WeightWatchers files bankruptcy” · view on HN