Incredible Surgeries

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Who's the Patient Here?

Claudio Vitale, an Italian brain surgeon, had a heart attack in the middle of an operation to remove a tumor from a man's back. He powered through it as his patient was at a delicate moment and might not survive if he stopped. He insisted that he was not a hero, only doing his duty.

 

 

 

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Mile High Club

Two surgeons, Dr. Angus Wallace and Dr. Tom Wong, had to improvise a surgery to repair a collapsed lung on a flight from Hong Kong to London. They used a coat hanger, brandy for sterilization, and a tube to operate - and succeeded. The patient had been in a motorcycle crash before the flight and had not thought it bad enough to require immediate attention. She was lucky the doctors were there.

 

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Who Needs Medical School?

The man from the movie 127 hours is not the only guy to have to perform a self amputation. In 2007, Sampson Parker was working on his farm when he made the grave mistake of putting his hand in a still-running corn shucker. In the commotion following his injury as he tried to free himself, sparks ignited some of the corn around him. The fire gave him a rush of courage to break and cut his own arm off to survive, and then drive a truck into the middle of the road to get help.

 

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Poker Face

German neurosurgeon Otfrid Foerster was once working to remove a tumor from the brain of an ordinary man when suddenly a very strange side effect took place. The patient burst into a manic flight of puns, unable to stop himself from a continuous stream of wordplay. It is incredible that the doctor was able to avoid succumbing to laughter and complete the surgery.

 

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Sanjay MacGyver

Sanjay Gupta, CNN medical correspondent and neurosurgeon, once saved a Marine's life after he was shot in the head during the opening days of the invasion of Iraq. Being on the frontline, there were no proper tools to conduct a surgery, so Gupta performed the brain surgery with a Black and Decker handheld drill. The Marine lived with almost no side effects.

 

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Unstoppable

One Japanese fighter pilot, Saburo Sakai, had an incredible voyage to get himself to surgery. After an aerial battle in WWII, he suffered a bullet wound to the right side of his head. He somehow managed to fly over 4 hours back to base despite being blind and paralyzed down the entire left side of his body, and further still survived an emergency surgery without anesthesia immediately afterward.

 

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Labor Of Love

Ines Ramírez is believed to be the only woman to have successfully performed a c-section on herself. The town she lived in in Mexico was small, around 500 people, and did not have the facilities to be able to perform such an operation. After going into labor for over 12 hours to no effect, she faced a choice to either operate on herself or lose a child for the second time to miscarriage. She took a few swigs of alcohol for courage and opted to cut herself open. The baby ended up coming out fine and Ramírez recovered later to full health at a nearby hospital.

 

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