Wednesday's Quote of the Day
10:42 UK time, Wednesday, 3 December 2008
"Easy! ... Good luck" - Contained in the text messages explaining how to amputate an arm from surgeon in London to another in the Congo.
While volunteering in Africa, British surgeon David Nott had to remove the arm of a wounded teenager known only as J, who'd been bitten by a hippo. Having never carried out such a proceedure before, he texted a colleague who had - this being the only method of communication available to him. Instructions came via two long texts, with perhaps the only understandable words being "Easy!" and "Good luck".
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