Stitching has been a thing for centuries (millennia?) and yet there still exists no other way to hold together a big wound, why not exactly?
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Sometimes there is no better alternatives because what we have is good or the best we think we can make. There are staples that can be used, but usually not for large wounds. Stitches are very flexible, and they can be done inside and outside the body. They dissolve on their own sometimes. They can do multiple layers of stitches for deep cuts. There is a ton of reasons to use them. And while we have been using them for a long time, we have much better stitches now than we use to.
Not everything in this world needs to be advanced. Some day we might have some space aged device that can close wounds instantly. But today we don’t.
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