I haven’t watched yet but this seems highly selective. There’s so much creative building in medicine, from what’s done in orthopedics with rebuilding joints (often using a patients existing tissue with new hardware) or with reconstructive surgery, etc. if you consider medicine more broadly to include pharmacology or therapy then there’s more room for constructive creativity.
Brain surgery might be particularly skewed toward feeling barbaric. They are cutting a hole in someone’s head and digging around in brain tissue, often permanently removing tissue or skull. In 500 years time I assume they’ll give you a small drink of nanobots which find their way to the problem and solve it at the microscopic level. Until then, pass the bone saw.
