surgery

[Geodude]

The recent developments with Brock in the Japanese anime got me thinking about the medicine field in the Pokemon world. We've seen Pokemon hooked up to machines for diagnosis and treatment, we've seen healing items and berries used on them, and we've seen Pokemon heal other Pokemon, but we've never heard of a Pokemon needing surgery. (I'm largely unfamiliar with the manga, so if this has happened in the manga universe, forgive me.) Do you think Pokemon surgery even happens in the Pokemon world?

 

[It's Super Effective]

i love realistic threads.

i wouldn't be surprised; in a case where someone owns a pokemon and lives a casual, non-trainer life or is a trainer, a Pokemon could develop something that would require surgery, just like any other pet. i mean, canon handles with pokemon dying, from old age and from battles, so anything could happen.

tl;dr, yes.

 

[The Outrage]

Probably, and the reason we don't see it in a kids show is that it involves a lot of blood and cutting them open.

 

[PDL]

Probably, and the reason we don't see it in a kids show is that it involves a lot of blood and cutting them open.

Plus they don't really want to trivalize something that can be a very serious matter. They could accidently treat it as a joke and offend someone.

There's also the fact that Pokémon have widely different biologies and it would be ridiculous to go into detail about what happens when a Grimer needs to have a triple-bypass surgery.

What about homeotherapy? physiotherapy? psychotherapy? There are alot of fields that apply to humans, can the same be done for Pokémon?

 

[Joshawott]

They'd had Pokémon in Intensive care in the anime. So why not surgery? Remember, not all surgery is major. If I remember correctly, there was an episode in Kanto with a Human Hospital having to take Pokémon patients, and a lot of them looked lie they needed surgery.

 

[Drakon]

Plus they don't really want to trivalize something that can be a very serious matter. They could accidently treat it as a joke and offend someone.

How?

Surgery might be needed for severe injuries or maybe embedded objects (Spike Cannon gone wrong?).

 

[Reyairia]

Wouldn't this go in the pokemon anime forum?

 

[Vraell]

There probably were ideas thrown around for Pokemon surgery, but with the controversy, and the fact the show is target for kids, there is very little room for error when doing something like this. It was probably scrapped so as not to deal with all that trouble.


As for Pokemon dying, it rarely happens on screen, and even then only in the movies. (not counting manga) Pokemon are not immortal. It is feasible that they can be killed in a battle far more savage and brutal than anything we've have, or ever will see.

 

[The Outrage]

Wouldn't this go in the pokemon anime forum?

How do you reason that? The forum's caption does include this line "A place for discussion of the world of Pokémon..." and I'm sure medicine isn't only an anime only practice.

There probably were ideas thrown around for Pokemon surgery, but with the controversy, and the fact the show is target for kids, there is very little room for error when doing something like this. It was probably scrapped so as not to deal with all that trouble.

Where do you get the idea that surgery in Pokemon was even considered? The games only had to heal HP so they never had to deal with it, while the anime would only include it if its plot relevant, but then, the anime seems to take its cue from the games and not show how Pokemon are treated most of the time. I only ever recall them restong on a bed with machines attached to them for serious injuries.

 

[Geodude]

The surgery wouldn't necessarily have to be actually shown. There could just be a scene with the trainer waiting outside the operating room or something.

 

[Zwampert]

Probably, and the reason we don't see it in a kids show is that it involves a lot of blood and cutting them open.

This, and since this show should'nt be taken that seriously. And besides, I dont think pokemon need surgurey is they get Poison Jabbed. Unless its an egg, but then again, surgurey wont be involved.

 

[Kamex]

It most likely does, it just isn't shown for obvious reasons. I believe that most of the fields that apply to humans also apply to Pokémon. After all, we've heard about Pokémon psychology (in the Johto ep where Chikorita runs away). So there also must be some kind of form of psychotherapy. Some aspects of the Pokémon world are just not explored, so we may never know for sure.

 

[Vraell]

How do you reason that? The forum's caption does include this line "A place for discussion of the world of Pokémon..." and I'm sure medicine isn't only an anime only practice.
Where do you get the idea that surgery in Pokemon was even considered? The games only had to heal HP so they never had to deal with it, while the anime would only include it if its plot relevant, but then, the anime seems to take its cue from the games and not show how Pokemon are treated most of the time. I only ever recall them restong on a bed with machines attached to them for serious injuries.

There was one episode in the first season where a hospital for humans had to be used in place of a Pokemon Center which gave me that idea.

 

[Pawsrent]

In the first season, they almost had to do surgery on Pikachu.

 

[spoinkoal]

i would think so. if a pokemon got complications from something it ate, and no i'm not suggesting about complications with it's bowels, then i would think pokemon would need surgery except in some cases like mechanical, ghosts, and anything like Grimer.

 

[V Faction]

I don't think it happens unless it can. If the limits of the Pokemon Medical world reflect our own, then maybe setting the broken leg of a Meowth or getting a Poocheyna neutered is fine, but that's about the extent of it.

The limits cannot go beyond certain Pokemon. How would you operate on something like a Metagross when its body would be impossible to get into? It begs the question, could the Metagross even get injured?

What about corporeal Pokemon, like Spiritomb or Shedinja? Do they even have organs or bones to break? In fact, how do these Pokemon even eat?

Someone already brought up Grimer. What about Voltorb, or Magnemite? Their bodies are clearly made up of non-biological material. Can they even feel illness beyond your typical poisoning or burn?

It's all way too messy to think about.

 

[Cabaret]

I'd love to see some pokemon electro shock threrapy.

 

[Belnazar]

Hmmm this is an interesting idea, and I think part of why it would be hard to deal with is becuase it simply is too wide and hard a question to answer in any satisfactory kind of manner. As mentioned above with pokemon that are made of metal, and otherwise might not be considered organic perhaps they would be more like machinery and than people in terms of having them fixed... Just a thought, and as for the ghost pokemon, maybe they cant get sick like that simply becuase their physical bodies are incorporeal, as their ghost typing would suggest and as a result they cant ever truly get physically harmed.

But this problem extends to other pokemon too, like plant based ones that dont have bodies that would be considered typical in other pokemon that are based on more bird/mammal/reptilian designs.

Its really too complex to ever get a full understanding of, as it stands we still dont fully understand our own bodies and biology, let alone creatures that inhabit our own world...

 

[Kyuuketsuki]

There probably was in the first seasons, or so I like to believe, when Nurse Joy takes the Pokémon behind closed doors and the needle thing sign lights up. She was after all rushing them like it was a life or death matter.