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Old December 4th, 2008, 09:33 AM

Surgeon performs amputation by text message

I suppose this is incredible just because it is a guy making the best of the situation... Death? Or let a guy cut your arm off as he reads instructions from his phone?

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Surgeon saves boy's life by text

A British doctor volunteering in DR Congo used text message instructions from a colleague to perform a life-saving amputation on a boy.

Vascular surgeon David Nott helped the 16-year-old while working 24-hour shifts with medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in Rutshuru.
The boy's left arm had been ripped off and was badly infected and gangrenous.

Mr Nott, 52, from London, had never performed the operation but followed instructions from a colleague who had.

The surgeon, who is based at Charing Cross Hospital in west London, said: "He was dying. He had about two or three days to live when I saw him."

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Old December 14th, 2008, 08:55 AM

Wow.

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