When you dissect a joke, it dies on the operating table.
hahaha! I laughed way too hard at this :)
Things are dissected when they're already dead. When you vivisect a joke, it dies on the operating table.
Oh. Never mind.
I feel like I just witnessed something beautiful.
The patient wouldn't die, but the surgeon would have punched a hole in the abdominal cavity on the wrong side. That would create a new wound, but wouldn't fix the initial life-threatening problem. So then, he'd have to punch a hole on the correct side, fixing the problem.
After that, the surgeon would have to contend with malpractice concerns while the patient healed from two holes in their chest, one unnecessary.
There's a 'Good Samaritan' law in most states, protecting those that try to help in an emergency in good faith.
Doesn’t apply to a wrong-sided procedure
That's incorrect
Malpractice, of course, is civil law. Nobody going to jail.