History Main / RoadsideSurgery

* In the Russian Sci-Fi series ''Better Than Us'', [[spoiler:Georgiy]] has to preform this on [[spoiler:Zhanna after she gets shot in the leg]]. {{Deconstructed}}, as despite [[spoiler:Georgiy]] being a former surgeon doing everything possible to sterilize the environment, the wound still gets infected and [[spoiler:Zhanna has to be taken to the hospital anyway (despite it being against her wishes) since she will die of sepsis otherwise.]]

* In the Russian Sci-Fi series ''Better Than Us'', [[spoiler:Georgiy]] has to preform this on [[spoiler:Zhanna after she gets shot in the leg]]. {{Deconstructed}}, as despite all the efforts at making the environment sterile, the wound still gets infected and [[spoiler:Zhanna has to be taken to the hospital anyway (despite it being against her wishes) since she will die of sepsis otherwise.]]

** "They Call the Wind Korea" has Charles and Klinger trapped in an overturned truck during a windstorm with a bunch of injured Greeks. Charles is forced to perform surgery with whatever happens to be in his medical bag. Being Charles, he gripes the entire time about the improvised tools.

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* One ''{{Series/Emergency}}'' episode had the surgery done in a outdoor area because the guy had a live mortar embedded in him and the ride to the hospital could have made it explode. Another episode narrowly averted it, with Roy managing to save the patient’s leg and extract him from a work site collapse just before Brackett arrived to amputate the leg.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' - After Fry and Amy ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Dr. Zoidberg]]) are in a hovercar wreck, Zoidberg attaches Fry's head to Amy's body to keep him alive, working in the middle of nowhere without any tools. No one seems the least bit amazed he succeeded, despite his otherwise horrible track record at treating human patients.
* On ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Bart goes into Sour Grapes Mode because Mr. Flanders wouldn't let him have a knife. He walks past several other characters using knives in various ways. Dr. Hibbert uses a pocket knife to remove a man's appendix ''right on the sidewalk'' before [[{{Squick}} throwing said organ away to explode like a grenade]]. The patient gets up and thanks him, like nothing out of the ordinary happened.

* ''VideoGame/TraumaCenter''

* ''VideoGame/TraumaTeam''

* In the episode "Mulcahey's War" of ''Series/{{MASH}}'', the Catholic priest Father Mulcahy must perform an emergency tracheotomy by the side of the road in Korea using improvised equipment. He's given instructions over the radio by the doctors back at the 4077th.

* In one episode of ''Series/{{MASH}}'', the Catholic priest Father Mulcahy must perform an emergency tracheotomy by the side of the road in Korea using improvised equipment. He's given instructions over the radio by the doctors back at the 4077th.

In some cases this might overlap with AfterActionHealingDrama, if the rush to get to medical personnel is forgone for a rush to just heal.

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* ''Series/{{Casualty}}'' is set in an accident and emergency department, but the resuscitation room may as well be made an OR with how often it gets used for this. As the world's longest running medical show, it's hard to list instances, but one of the best has to be in the 2009/10 run when Sean and Nick have to operate on [[spoiler:Adam, Jessica, and their kids]] after getting in a car crash that results in spinning off the road into a frozen lake. The hospital they work at [[Series/HolbyCity does have an OR]], but apparently emergent trauma has to go through the casualty before anything else.
* ''Series/TheGoodDoctor'': In the first episode, Shaun has to perform surgery using a bottle of whiskey in an airport. In the third episode he operates on an ex vivo transplant liver on the trunk of a cop car.

** This is arguably Ben Warren's specially. Aside from the aforementioned c-section, he has opened a psych patient with a clipboard and done a ''second'', more successful, caesarean on April. Even his switch to firefigher didn't stop this, preforming an amputation at the end of Season 2.

* In 2014 a London Air Ambulance crew used a new method (Reboa) of preventing blood loss on a patient involved in a large RTI. The method involves open heart surgery, and the patient survived.

* One of Elliot's challenges in ''Film/ThirteenSins'' involves him amputating the arm of a former classmate in a seedy motel.
* An [[CombatMedic Army Ranger medic]] from ''Film/BlackHawkDown'' tries to save a fellow Ranger with a horrific leg wound. The medic needs to install a bridging shunt in the patient's femoral artery to keep him from bleeding to death. The surgery has to be performed on a rickety table in a derelict building while the local warlord's mooks are searching for them.
* Homer Wells from ''Film/TheCiderHouseRules'' grew up in an orphanage, and was being groomed to follow in the footsteps of Doctor Larch. While earning a living on an apple farm, Homer discovers young Rose is pregnant with her father's child. Because Rose is black, getting a proper medical abortion is highly unlikely. Therefore, Homer agrees to perform the procedure in the pickers' shack (the cider house), using the skills and training gleaned from Doctor Larch.
* In ''Film/CircusOfHorrors'', Dr. Rossiter insists he can perform delicate facial surgery on the kitchen table of a circus caravan. As it turns out, he's right. Much later, he [[SelfSurgery guides Angela and Martin through performing a similar procedure on his own face]] in a similar location.
* ''Film/IronMan1'': film, Tony is almost killed when an explosion blasts shrapnel through his heart. He wakes to meet Yinsen, a doctor who saved his life by grafting an electromagnet to his chest. Yinsen knows it's comically crude, but considering they have both been kidnapped it was the best he could manage.

* In the first ''Film/IronMan1'' film, Tony requires surgery in a cave in the Middle East after being blown up and kidnapped.

* ''Series/GreysAnatomy'':

* In ''Film/CircusOfHorrors'', Dr. Rossiter insists he can perform delicate facial surgery on the kitchen table of a circus caravan. As it turns out, he's right. Much later, he [[SelfSurgery guides Angela and Martin through performing a similar procedure on his own face]].

** In season 12, there's an episode all about this. After a [[CodeEmergency Code Pink]] is called and the hospital put on lockdown, the residents all get stranded with patients. Ben performs an unnecessary emergency caesarean in the hallway, while Steph laments that she almost got to do a thoracotomy in the ER -- [[{{lampshading}} asking how often people get to operate outside of an OR]], with [[SeenItAll Webber]] telling her it's not as fun when you have to do it.

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