Man performs surgery via text message.

Posted by Jimmy Fenimore at 12/4/2008 2:00 PM
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LONDON, England (CNN) -- A British surgeon amputated the arm of a wounded teenager in Congo, Africa with help from instructions sent to him by text message. David Nott texted his surgical colleague Meirion Thomas, who is one of only a handful of UK surgeons familiar with the difficult procedure of removing the collar bone and shoulder blade. David Nott realized that teenager J, whose arms had been ripped off and was now gangrenous, had only a few days left to live. "I knew that the only way to save this boy's life was to do a forequarter amputation and I knew that Professor Meirion Thomas was really the expert" says Nott. Nott, a vasuclar surgeon at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London, who volunteers one month a year with humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders, had never performed such an operation before. Professor Thomas replied almost immediately with ten steps Nott should follow to carry out the procedure and then signed off with "Easy! Good luck."

Well look who has the egg on their face now. The hard working men and women of ".com", that's who. We claimed that text messaging will eventually render the voice box useless and it's an epidemic amongst youngsters. Boy were we wrong. These text messages saved some poor kids life. This makes us ".com" people curious. Why not just call? Is the economy so bad in London that they are out of any time minutes? Call me crazy, but if I'm in a hospital that gave me gang green, I'd appreciate the operating surgeon putting a little more effort into his performance then just a ten step direction text. I mean hell, it takes 12 steps to get off the booz. For the second time, we would be wrong because the kid is okay. Which makes us ponder again, if it only takes a ten step text to perform surgery, maybe the whole 12 step program is a little bit of overkill. Step 1. Stop drinking. Step 2. Deal with the detox. Step 3. Repeat. Like shampoo. Rinse, lather, repeat.

Oh yeah, and the final text was just not necessary. Easy! Good luck? How about I drive up to London and cram this phone down your throat. Easy? I have to cut a kid arms off. You're telling me easy? I'll end you.


 

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