Surgeons transplant recycled cadaver ligament to rebuild damaged knee. Time of operation accelerates, the ramification of Frankensteinian electrodes, instantly rehabilitating injury via medical tricorder. The concomitant wear and tear bionically repaired certainly recalls science fiction.
Robin Cook presaged a Soylent Green future lying in coma where unanimated bodies dangle like slaughtered meat awaiting reprocessing. Such is modern reality that echoes the postmodern culture of conspicuous consumption. Everything and consequently every being is replaceable. But is advanced biomedical technology truly dystopic?
Fractured Patellae is now Torn Labrums.