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Nigeria: Search for a Sterile Scalpel. 3 minute read. TIME. September 1, 1967 12:00 AM GMT-4.
A SURGEON used a penknife to cut open a patient's chest during a cardiac arrest, claiming he couldn't find a clean scalpel. The patient, who was treated at Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton ...
A surgeon at an under-fire NHS trust used a Swiss Army penknife from his lunch to cut open a patient after being unable to find a sterile scalpel.. The unnamed surgeon was operating on a patient ...
The patient was in cardiac arrest and the doctor claimed he could not find a sterile scalpel. The patient, treated at Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton in December 2023, ...
A surgeon at a crisis-hit NHS trust used his own Swiss Army penknife to open up the chest of a patient when he couldn’t find a sterile scalpel. An “emergency procedure” was carried out on ...
A surgeon at a crisis-hit NHS trust used a Swiss Army penknife to open up the chest of a patient because he claimed he could not find a sterile scalpel. University Hospitals Sussex has said the ...