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Question: Why do they refer to the surgery area as a theatre? Is it for entertainment purposes?
Maybe I'm an idiot, but I thought 'theatre' was for entertainment and surgery room was for medical surgery...
I think that's because there were surgery rooms where students can watch operations from above
You're probably right. So indeed it's for entertainment. Gotcha.
I believe it was for education, not entertainment (though some procedures may have been entertaining, or at least interesting, to watch)
Surgery used to be, essentially, a speedrun. Sanitation and anaesthesia were near nonexistent so opening and closing as quickly as possible would markedly improve mortality rates. Appendix% was a popular watch.