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Bill,
he's being fitted with his prosthesis this week. overall doing well except for some phantom pain. nasty injury........
just had another get himself with a circular saw and took off his right arm....sent him for replantation at Univ. of VA.....
this is why the swatsurgeon uses NO POWER TOOLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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'Revel in action, translate perceptions into instant judgements, and these into actions that are irrevocable, monumentous and dreadful - all this with lightning speed, in conditions of great stress and in an environment of high tension:what is expected of "us" is the impossible, yet we deliver just that.
(adapted from: Sherwin B. Nuland, MD, surgeon and author: The Wisdom of the Body, 1997 )
Education is the anti-ignorance we all need to better treat our patients. ss, 2008.
The blade is so sharp that the incision is perfect. They don't realize they've been cut until they're out of the fight: A Surgeon Warrior. I use a knife to defend life and to save it. ss (aka traumadoc)
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