[1] In 2008, David Nott, a British vascular surgeon in the Democratic Republic of the Congo with Médecins Sans Frontières, performed a forequarter amputation to save the life of a 16-year-old boy, whose arm had been severed by an injury.
All that remained of this 16-year-old's arm was six inches of skin; the rest had been shot off when he became caught in gunfire between the Congolese army and rebel forces.
A further amputation had left him open to infection, and now he was facing the prospect of an awful, agonising death over a period of several days – hallucinations, dehydration, his kidneys packing up, his breathing going and then, finally, his heart.
"[2] It made the news because his colleague, Joseph Meirion Thomas, sent pointers via SMS text message.
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