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Between a Rock and a Hard Place

January 2, 2010 By Chris Nickson View Comments

No surgeon makes the decision to amputate a limb lightly. But what if you had to amputate your own limb?

“No operation should be carried out unless absolutely necessary, nor should a surgeon operate unless he would undergo the same operation himself in similar circumstances.”
- John Hunter

Watch Aron Ralston tell the astonishing tale – in excruciating detail – of how he survived using a pocket knife to sever his own arm after it was trapped and crushed beneath a fallen boulder.

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Aron Ralston discusses his survival and recovery in his book ‘Between a Rock and a Hard Place‘.

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About Chris Nickson
An oslerphile suffering from a bad case of knowledge dipsosis. Key areas of interest include: emergency medicine, critical care, toxicology, tropical medicine, clinical epidemiology, history, literature and the internet-learning revolution. @precordialthump

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  1. precordialthump says:
    January 2, 2010 at 4:01 am

    'In the Fast Lane': Between a Rock and a Hard Place http://su.pr/2QOwAM No surgeon makes the decision to amputate a limb lightly…

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    January 2, 2010 at 6:22 am

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  3. Topsy says:
    January 2, 2010 at 4:10 pm

    'In the Fast Lane': Between a Rock and a Hard Place http://su.pr/2QOwAM No surgeon makes the decision to amputate a limb lightly…

  4. Apsara says:
    January 3, 2010 at 3:21 am

    RT @precordialthump: 'In the Fast Lane': Between a Rock and a Hard Place http://su.pr/2QOwAM No surgeon makes the decision to amputate a …

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    January 2, 2010 at 4:10 pm

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    January 3, 2010 at 12:11 am

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