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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jian" data-source="post: 9605035" data-attributes="member: 78087">To be very slightly fair, in the book he has metal pincers for hands which are rather more practical than cast iron hands (as in the film). You might be able to do a bit of writing, lab work, or pill grinding with those (both of the latter would have been on the medical school syllabus then) but dissection and physical examination (palpation*, percussion etc) would basically have been impossible.*”Your turn, Julius, palpate this man’s liver and find how large it is, also see if you can elicit hepatojugular reflux. Try not to kill the patient this time.”(The book says that he used wax hands when at medical school so as not to disturb his fellow students - presumably during lectures or something. I’m not sure that they’d have been less disturbing.)But yes, this is the most determinator thing ever and makes any given one-armed swordsman look positively lazy. Besides, anyone who’s done HEMA or similar knows that learning to fight with your left hand isn’t hard at all - many fighters learn just that.</blockquote>