No. It’ll probably stop birdshot. A bullet from a rifle, not so much.
Most interesting set of suggestions here. I have one too - it failed to repair the spine so they had to operate instead. It’s currently in the loft 
It could possibly be used as a dressmaker’s dummy as it’s “tailored” to your shape @George1 . You don’t fancy a new hobby, do you? 
EDIT: Congratulations on your health improvement! Freedom is a wonderful thing after being in one of those…
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How incredibly frustrating - and painful - that must have been for you, sorry to hear that…
The suggestion is not far off a realistic possibility - I now volunteer at the local Vestiboutique (aka clothes bank) and they might be able to use it as a mannequin to wear some of the jackets/shirts. Volunteering there is rather safer than scrub clearance on steep chateau slopes.
Another possibility raised by a friend is that I could apply to become an extra as a Star Wars Trooper…
Thank you, I feel a slightly dark chapter is ending and a brighter one begins…
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Complete with cod-piece …
That might be a goer but I was very disappointed to be told by the nurses who have been changing the dressing of my op scar that if I took the great pile of unused, sealed boxes of dressings to the pharmacy they would bin the lot.
The dressings have now been added to the nurses’ stock.
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Was that a massive scar @captainendeavour ? It seems a long time you were having dressings changed. Was the original lesion very small?
The scar is about 25 cms L vertically down my back from left shoulder blade, x 3 cms W (allowing for the staples across it)
I don’t know how deep it was.
I had the op on Oct 15. Two nurses (they are a team - I call them Las Angeles) changed the dressing daily, turn and turn about, up to about 3 weeks ago when they changed it every other day. Last dressing about a week ago.
The original lesion was a bleb about 20 mm diameter towards the top of the scar.
I was surprised to find the scar to be so long but I suppose, like dealing with dry rot, you keep on chopping out till well beyond the affected area.
Rot all gone now 
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That makes your corset pretty high tech then, similar scar from my M cycle accident all I had was a yard of cotton wool 
Pretty normal and the nurses probably should not have taken them off you for their own stock.
Once outside a “quality controlled” environment there is no guarantee what you did with them or how you stored them so they have no real idea what their state is.
[I was once involved with a few ISO accreditation bids including process and quality control - I’m not even that into standards and quality controls but still have the scars 
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The sealed bit should be a tamper proof seal, could save the NHS and others a fortune, although they dont hand out the quantity they used to. I had to ask nurses to only give me half of what they were going to send me home with and they gave me enough morphine to probably kill a large number of people. All destroyed when handed back.
On the contrary, they saw them every day, arranged by them, in the same location where they attended to me.
If the dressings were fit for use on me over the 3+ months of treatment, the unused remainder will be perfectly fit for another patient.
Addendum: It’s inconceivable that nurses would use anything that might compromise the health of their patients.
These dressings are, in essence, simply sticking plasters 30cms L x 8cms W… It was a bit mad of the hospital to order so many boxes in the first place.
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Well, the nurses will have had no idea of the storage requirements either. Though, OK, being pragmatic no less a controlled environment than the back of their car which is probably where the nurses’ stock is kept.
OTOH - would you be happy with “second hand” dressings if you knew?
Yes, George1 did a very thorough job of his fall down the escarpment at a castle, hence the extensiveness of his corsetry.
Lucky worse did not happen really.
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Our local surgery (UK) took a load off us we wanted to donate as we knew how expensive they were and wanted people in need to get them. The surgery said they are not allowed to use them or hand them out, and they get sent to Africa.
I was doubtful if any of those 3 possibilities would, factually, happen, or not.
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But we can always hope
Deported to Rwanda? 
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Is there not a problem with that? The inference being that they can’t be used in Europe because they might be unsuitable or even dangerous, but it doesn’t matter as far as Africans are concerned. 
I seem to remember such unease at other things, clothing I think, going the same way, and the feeling of condecension went with them.
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It might be condescension to you, but to the person of small means in a country with poor publicly funded healthcare pair of glasses, or leg braces, or a surgical corset is probably rather welcome when choice is between that and nothing.
What would be condescending would be to send second class goods that are substandard.
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Hmm. Remind me what happened when the UK government decided to import PPE from (inter alia) Turkey and China?
Mone-ing again 