I'm a retired Nurse practitioner, on occassion we would have to remove sutures, one of the covering doctors always wanted to see the patients who came back after surgery with him so he would remove the sutures. He was an avid fisherman, so it was a joking struggle for which one of us would keep the scissors & hemostats. LOL And of course we would always soak them in an antiseptic before running offf with our prize.