Although this is a gruesome story I find it heartening
PARAMEDICS SAVE TRAPPED MAN BY CUTTING OFF HIS LEG WITH A SCALPEL
Last year we had the truly distressing story of a young man who drowned with his foot trapped in a drain, with emergency services watching on helplessly as their efforts to free him proved fruitless. It appeared that no one had the courage to literally cut him out
That may be grossly unfair on the rescue services involved – it may simply not have been a feasible option. And in this latest case it sounds rather as if the leg was effectively already lost anyway
But in these litigious days would you want to take the decision to remove a healthy leg to save a life?
