Doctor Uses Text Messages To Instruct Colleague On Tricky Surgery

David Nott, a vascular surgeon from London, was coached by Professor Meirion Thomas via text messages on how to preform a difficult forequarter amputation. Nott, who was attending to a teenager in Congo Africa while volunteering with Doctors Without Borders knew that the teens only chance was to have the operation which he had never attempted. A call to Thomas was responded to within 10 minutes. Thomas provided Nott with the 10 steps to the amputation then reportedly signed off with "Easy! Good luck." Nott says "I felt I had like my guardian angel on my left shoulder showing me what to do. I just got on with it, and everything he told me, I just did".

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YouTube Surgery Video - File This Under Unbelievable And Disturbing!

A group of doctors, nurses, nursing students and and a clinical instructor each face disciplinary action after a video of a raucous surgery makes its way onto YouTube. The embarrassed patient, a 39-year-old unidentified male, plans to file a complaint seeking the revocation of the licenses of those responsible and a civil suit for damages, according to the Globe and Mail. The surgery preformed at the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center in Cebu, Philippines, involved the removal an object from the patients rectum. Upon the successful removal someone reportedly shouts, “Baby out!” while the operating room and observation gallery erupts in loud cheers. The patient was apparently too drunk to remember how the object found it's way in there! Let this be a lesson... drinking in excess can have embracing consequences!