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No, it was indeed with the idea that someone would cut you with a knife which would require stitches.
It's like 30 years old from when hospitals were...expensive still yes, but not that bad.
The idea of hospitals being expensive is so alien to me, that's genuinely awful.
actually dystopian
Really? Wonder where I remember my version from...