His videos have been a hit for a few weeks on TikTok.

Robin Goncet, intern in 6th year of medicine in Grenoble (Isère), captivates Internet users with his surgical operations carried out… on fruit.

The adventures of Samuel the banana, a heart transplant recipient, or Emma the orange, who had to undergo an emergency cesarean section, have already been viewed by hundreds of thousands of Internet users on social networks.

“It all started during the first confinement.

I was just coming out of a hand surgery internship, and I really missed not being able to practice anymore.

Suddenly, I told myself that I was going to practice suturing a little with the means at hand.

And like any good medical student, I chose to do it on fruit.

I then said to myself that I was going to put eyes on them, give them a name and make videos with little stories that I will post on the Internet, ”

 Robin Goncet

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"A way to popularize certain surgical procedures"

Orange, apple, pepper, avocado… Scalpel in hand, and wearing his white coat, Robin Goncet makes two videos of surgical operations every three weeks, which he then posts on his TikTok account called “Fruitrurgie”. The intern admits to having been surprised by the enthusiasm generated by his publications. “Basically, I wanted to make these videos for fun. But very quickly, I told myself that it was a good way to popularize certain surgical procedures, to explain how we proceed for more or less common surgeries, such as tubal ligation, inguinal hernia, extradural hematoma. , vasectomy… ”, explains the young man, originally from Chamonix (Haute-Savoie), who was able to benefit from equipment loaned by the hospital in which he practices.

The medical student is now followed on TikTok by more than 245,000 followers, and his videos posted on social networks (TikTok and Instagram) total between 7 and 8 million views.

Its audience, "Internet users not necessarily able to watch a real operation with blood", "people curious to know how the operations they have undergone were carried out", or even "medical students anxious to perfect their learning. », Today respond to each new video, which on average has several hundred thousand views.

The next one should be posted next week.

"I will operate on a fruit with an abscess there, it will be a question of infectious disease on a fruit which should be called Cyprien or Julien".

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