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