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Surgeon Amputates Using Texted Instructions

Phone helps save Congolese teen

By Ambreen Ali,  Newser User

Posted Dec 3, 2008 5:11 PM CST

(Newser) – A volunteer surgeon in a Congolese war zone followed texted instructions to perform an amputation that saved a 16-year-old boy's life. The teen's badly injured and infected arm required that his collar bone and shoulder blade be immediately removed, but Dr. David Nott had never...   Read full story »

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