IT must have been very sore.
A man from southern
California in the USA is
recovering in hospital after
trying some “self-surgery”
using a butter knife.
The 63-year-old was
apparently quite troubled by a
protruding hernia when he
took to himself with the table
implement - and that wasn’t
the end of it.
When his wife found him
with the knife sticking out of
his stomach she called an
ambulance - but while he was
waiting for the paramedics he
stuck a lit cigarette into the
bleeding, open wound.
“I don’t know what he was
thinking,” she said, adding: “I
don’t know if he was
cauterising the wound”.The above article was sent to subscribers in Pharmacy Daily's issue from 28 Jul 11 To see the full newsletter, see the embedded issue below or CLICK HERE to download Pharmacy Daily from 28 Jul 11
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