Who needs medical school anymore? You can now watch the world's surgeons do their thing from the comfort of your parents' basement

From open-heart surgery to amputations, sex-change operations to autopsies, the operating rooms of the world have gone online. One website, OR-Live, regularly broadcasts live from the O.R. For example, tune in next week to watch a hysterectomy. These broadcasts, and dozens of other videos posted to YouTube, draw hundreds of thousands of viewers. We've got four words for you: advertising-supported health care.

And to jump-start the movement, we've curated 10 of the best surgical videos we could find. Be forewarned, though, be very forewarned: Some of these are grisly, and all of them are graphic. The autopsy and sex-change operation, in particular, are very not-safe-for-work and not-safe-for-the-squeamish.

A few other helpful suggestions we've compiled from personal research. Don't watch while eating a hamburger or steak. Don't send this link to your mom, even if she's a doctor. And do not, under any circumstances, send one of these to your co-workers with the subject line, New From Zooborns, as a joke. It's not funny.

__1. Below-Knee Amputation__https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qcqfe1V1smg

2. Surgery on Beating Heart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxqj1BcBpIg

3. Removing a Fishhook from an Eye

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MluccXl8Ykw

4. Sex-Change Operation - NSFWhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOwp3IBQ_Sc

5. Open-Heart Surgery on a Baby Orangutanhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zap0_j2aJn4

6. Autopsy - NSFWhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRAh3Qse-Us

7. A Trip through the Digestive Tracthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM8j_Cx_kNA

8. The Brain Surgery You Stay Awake Forhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STdxt-r7Zic

9. Robotic-Assisted Prostate Surgeryhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45BT7CiEBnQ

10. Liposuction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfRsBijqS4E

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