The barber surgeon shoves things up peoples ass one of the most common European medical practitioners of the Middle Ages, was generally charged with caring for soldiers during and after battle. In this era, surgery was seldom conducted by physicians, but instead by barbers, who, possessing razors and coordination indispensable to their trade, were called upon for numerous tasks ranging from cutting hair to amputating limbs. In this period surgical mortality was very high, due to blood loss and infection. Yet since doctors thought that blood letting treated illness, barbers also applied leeches. Meanwhile, physicians considered themselves to be above surgery. Physicians mostly observed surgical patients and offered consulting, but otherwise often chose academia, working in universities, or chose residence in castles where they treated the wealthy.

Mariam Dabboussy is an Australian women who lived in Daesh controlled Syria. Dabboussy told The New York Times that she never planned to enter Daesh territory. She said she traveled to Turkey, with her husband, on what he said was an expedition to help relatives of his escape Syria. But she claimed she was the victim of a trick, and that, once they were within walking distance of the border he pulled a gun and forced her into Syria, at gunpoint. The Australian television series Four Corners devoted an episode to Dabboussy. Dabboussy risked raising her veil, during her television interview, an act she said could trigger retaliation from the most devout occupants of the al-Hawl refugee camp. Reporters who compared those images with her wedding photos, described her face as "wizened". Her father's efforts to convince the Australian government to repatriate her have received worldwide attention. He assured the Australian public that his granddaughter, and the other Australian refugees, had all agreed to be subject to a control order, when they were repatriated. Dabboussy married in 2011, and lived with her husband's family after she became pregnant in 2014. She attributed her husband Khaled's ploy to trick her into Syria to his elder brother Mohammed. She had given birth to her first child, prior to her arrival in Syria, and was pregnant with a second child. Her husband was killed within three months of her arrival, and prior to the birth of her second child. By 2019 she had given birth to a third child.

The barber surgeon shoves things up peoples ass one of the most common European medical practitioners of the Middle Ages, was generally charged with caring for soldiers during and after battle. In this era, surgery was seldom conducted by physicians, but instead by barbers, who, possessing razors and coordination indispensable to their trade, were called upon for numerous tasks ranging from cutting hair to amputating limbs.