If I were removing one implanted by the Joker, I’d want a bomb squad checking for booby traps every step of the process. So there’s some justification for that glitch, maybe.

Isn’t the whole “left side” thing a bit overblown? I have always been told that if you have shooting pains down your right arm, it’s not a good sign either.

Or maybe Hush is kine-dyslexic. And the world’s greatest neurosurgeon, too!

2, 4, 5 – Even at my best moments I cannot begin to come up with some comic-booky psudoscience to explain such gaping plot holes. Maybe Zatanna came buy during the two weeks he was out and removed all of his medical knowledge. (Following the revelation that he was never a doctor, or even Bruce Wayne’s childhood pal, this was just something she and the rest of the JLA thought up to keep Bats from discovering their secret.) Or the surgery did take only a few hours, but Superboy Prime was the anethesiologist, and Hush was out for two weeks because he hit him so hard.

(It’s true, there is no flaw in a comic so great that it can’t be explained by gratuitous invocation of Zatanna and/or Superboy Prime. Try it at home!)

3 – Like any Comic Book Doctor is only a specialist!

6 – Under the heading of “If you can’t say anything nice…”, at least we know that Hush isn’t a junkie. But he is one of those lame ass doctors who has his nurse do all the scutt work, like drawing blood. Man can’t even perform heart surgery on himself, really.

(On a more serious note, what’s the big deal? In the chest or in the leg, any reason he can’t just make in incision, pull out the box, and yank out the wire? Unlike the other patients, he doesn’t need the pacemaker to survive. Could he fibrulate himself with an accidental discharge? Are the wires invasive enough he could bleed to death? It sounds like he would be at more risk performing a Brazillian Wax on himself than pacemaker removal surgery.)