How much difference this makes I have no idea, having never been on the giving or receiving end, but this picture has no doubt embedded in a lot of filmic minds. I've always thought it had to do with the likelihood that the bullet brought something into the wound with it. In the movie version of Master and Commander of the Far Side of the World , there's a whole to-do about whether the bullet tore through the victims shirt and went into him alone safe or brought a chunk of shirt in with it necessitating removal, more of the shirt than the bullet.
Civil War era field medicine included instruments for bullet extraction. They included the surgeon's finger, and they weren't antiseptic. What Jahaza said is the best answer. There was a time when this was standard practice, and that time is called "Before Antibiotics.
Halloween has been cancelled. This is all. Newer ». This thread is closed to new comments. Gunshot Wound Cavitation First off, the bullet typically goes deeper than skin deep.
Share this post. How to Gain Confidence. Do Doctors Diet? Home Health Care. Home Health Care , Medicine. Like us on Facebook! Conclusions: In summary, there are only a few clear indications for bullet removal. These include bullets found in joints, CSF, or the globe of the eye. Fragments leading to impingement on a nerve or a nerve root, and bullets lying within the lumen of a vessel, resulting in a risk of ischemia or embolization, should be removed.
In The Aggression Scale , Owen gets shot in the chest. The bullet is slowed by a Pocket Protector but still lodges in his chest. He performs some Self-Surgery and digs the bullet out with a combat knife. In the Bean movie, as usual for Mr.
Bean, after a series of misunderstandings, he ends up in an emergency room in a doctor's outfit, at which point the other doctors and nurses expect him to retrieve a bullet from the police chief's body. As soon as he does before and after some Squick , amazingly, the chief's flat lining vital signs immediately stabilize, at which point he regains consciousness, and is apparently going to be just fine afterward.
Cue applause from doctors. Blastfighter : After Connie is shoot in the leg by the poachers, Tiger digs the bullet with his combat knife and hand sets her broken bones. Exactly why he thought it was necessary to do this on the spot, rather than waiting till they were out of immediate danger is never explained.
At the beginning of The Bourne Identity the fishing boat's medic digs two bullets out of the unconscious Jason Bourne's back. She insists that that the bullet needs to come out and talks Santiago through the procedure for removing it. Made more difficult because it is done in the front seat of her jeep, using equipment she has in the car, and she is tied up because Santiago won't untie her in case she escapes.
Carolina digs a bullet out of the Mariachi's arm following the Tarasco Bar shootout from Desperado. Not only would this be likely to cause both tissue damage and risk infection from all the saliva, but she would get blood all over herself in the process.
Fortunately the movie's realism tends to not be very consistent. The Heroic Bloodshed film The Duel of the Brothers have a scene where Ho-tien, a hitman, gets a bullet lodged in his shoulder, and his girlfriend have to dig it out with a pair of tweezers.
When the tweezers fail, he told her to just use her fingers , to her horror. Subverted in The Green Hornet : Britt is shot in the shoulder as Green Hornet, but obviously can't go to the hospital lest he give away his Secret Identity. So he tells Lenore to dig the bullet out with a kitchen knife while he bites down on a spatula , but even the heat from the sterilized knife causes him to wuss out.
They end up having Kato in costume drive up and "shoot" Britt at a public event, which lets him safely go to the hospital and makes it less likely that people will think he's the Hornet. However, this means that Reid has to spend a day or so with a bullet in his shoulder and not let anyone know about it.
After the troop and the hostages are holed up in the stage station, Molly, who used to be a nurse in the Union army, operates on him to extract the bullet: saying that she is doing so not because she wants to help the Confederates, but because she is a nurse and has no choice. Averted in an unusual fashion in Iron Man. Tony Stark ends up with his heart damaged by shrapnel, and instead of having the fragments removed, which would endanger his life, he gets an electromagnetic thingamajig implanted to keep the bits from killing him.
However, in Iron Man 3 , it's stated Tony probably should have it removed, he's just afraid of having the surgery, even if the long term consequences are worse. He finally goes and does it at the end of the film. As Jesse and Hank cannot go to regular doctor, she takes them to the Frankensteins. It is painful as hell. In Bill Cosby 's opus Leonard Part 6 , we're treated to an even more heroically pain-resistant hero: Leonard, having been shot, removes the bullets himself, his trusty manservant only standing by with surgical tools and a mirror.
The bullet is then placed in a large and almost full jar of other bullets that have been extracted from him over the course of his spy career. Logan : Justified when Laura sucks a bullet out of her arm — she has a fast-acting Healing Factor , so bleeding isn't a concern and the bullet was in the way. The Magic Crystal has a variant.
A character fakes his death by being shot in the head by ice bullets. He regains consciousness after the ice melts. No, the movie doesn't really make sense. Major Payne presents his Love Interest Emily Walburn with a gift that comes from his heart—a bullet that he dug out of his left ventricle.
Subverted, in that Stephen is far more concerned about a piece of his shirt that the ball took with it and which he fears will infect the wound.
We even get to see his assistant match the extracted shred to the hole in the shirt to make sure there are no bits left in the wound. Neo notes that " The bullet is still inside " and uses his One powers to reach into her body and pull it out. It quickly becomes a subversion when this does nothing to improve her condition whatsoever and she dies. Neo then has to use his powers to restart her heart. Justified in Max Manus. At first Max thinks he's dying from all the blood, but it turns out the injuries are superficial because the bullet fragmented.
However the doctor informs him that he's not able to find all the fragments, which could cause infection if left in place. Max has to be evacuated to neutral Sweden so he can go to a hospital, and while he's away his best friend Greger is caught in an ambush and killed. Subverted in Micmacs. During a gunfight, a bullet ricochets off the pavement and hits the protagonist in the head but does not kill him. At the hospital, the doctors decide it would be too dangerous to take it out, but the ammunition in it is still live and could go off at any time if he gets too upset.
It's a Jean-Pierre Jeunet movie. Don't think about it too hard. In Prairie Fever , Preston gets shot in the back while getting the wagon with the women in away from outlaw brothers James and Earl.
Olivia is somehow able to diagnose that they need to get the bullet out, and looks to the other women. Lettie and Blue shake their heads, but Abigale tentatively raises her hand and says that her aunt was a nurse and she once watched her remove a bullet. Justified in that he has a good reason for not taking her to a doctor to get the wound treated. After the excruciating surgery, De Niro's character says "I think I'll pass out now" and does. Justified in the Runaway where the Big Bad is armed with a Hand Cannon firing heat-seeking microshells.
One of them ends up in a cop's arm but fails to explode, and the protagonist has to remove it for fear it will detonate before they get her to the hospital. Seven Ways from Sundown : Flood thinks Seven's bullet is probably going to kill him just before he passes out.
Seven removes the bullet while Flood is unconscious so he can bring Flood back alive. Averted in Speed : early on Harry gets shot by the villain, and later mentions that the bullet is still inside him. Parodied in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby when the titular character stabs himself in the leg to prove that he's a paraplegic even though he's really not; he only thinks he is —and raises holy hell when it actually hurts.
His idiot buddies then try to dig the knife out— with another knife. In They Made Me a Fugitive , Clem gets shot by a farmer and is left with a painful collection of buckshot across his shoulder. When he finds Sally, she takes out the pieces even if she's constantly getting faint from the sight of blood. At the start of Tumbleweed , Jim saves Tigre's life by using a knife to dig a bullet out of Tigre's chest. In the Underworld series, Lycans have to dig out silver bullets and other silver weapons before they get fatally poisoned.
They have a Healing Factor , and powerful Lycans can push the bullets out just by tensing their muscles. Also, in Underworld: Blood Wars , David gets shot with a bullet tipped with a spinning drill , so Selene has to pull it out because it is traveling through and damaging his body faster than his Healing Factor can fix.
The Dragon , Renard, was shot in the head by MI6, the bullet didn't kill him, but it is slowly drifting towards his medulla oblongata which will eventually kill him. Unfortunately for Bond, this somehow causes him to feel no pain and become stronger. Possibly averted in X-Men: First Class. After Charles is accidentally hit in the spine by a bullet deflected by Erik, Erik pulls the bullet out using his powers.
It's entirely possible even likely that the act of pulling the bullet out is what makes Charles a paraplegic in the original trilogy. Justified in the second book of the Apprentice Adept series: Red has shot Stile with a bullet that, in Proton, is a tracer for a bomb robot, and in Phaze is a basilisk amulet that will activate the second it gets to Phaze.
In Danny, the Champion of the World , a risk run by those who poach pheasants was to be "shot up" by the keepers, usually in the backside. Danny's father describes seeing his own father having pellets of shot dug out of his backside with a potato knife. Justified in The Martian. Mark Watney has been punctured by a length of antenna which, along with congealed blood, has mostly sealed his spacesuit against decompression.
However when he regains consciousness, Watney has to remove the antenna to apply an emergency patch that will properly seal the spacesuit so he can make it back to the Habitat. In the movie he cuts off most of the antenna, but leaves the remainder in place until he makes it back to the Hab, then yanks out the rod and fishes inside himself with forceps for a nut that's been left in there.
However as the nearest medical attention is millions of miles away, and he's got to engage in a lot of physical activity over the next few years, it's not as if he has any other choice.
Subverted in a story told to the Orkney children in The Once and Future King , in which a king has a bullet-like projectile hit him at the base of his skull while fighting in the war. It had to stay in there, because no doctor could remove it without killing him.
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