Top 5 toe-curling DIY surgeries

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Top 5 toe-curling DIY surgeries

Times Online reported this morning that a quick-thinking doctor has saved the life of an Australian teenager by, erm, boring a hole into his skull with a household drill. Well, if that wasn't enough to put you off your cornflakes, read on...

1 - Victor Yazykov was alone in the middle of the ocean, half through a round-the-world yachting race when, in 1998, his elbow turned red, then yellow, then white.

Undeterred, he stripped near-naked in his cabin and set about draining the abscess himself, aided by a 13 step guide sent by email from a doctor on the other side of the world.
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2 - If you want something done right, do it yourself… At least, that’s what family doctor Jonathan Heatley must have been thinking when he carried out his own vasectomy in 2001...

3 - When, in 2001, doctors surgically realigned 20-year-old Stuart Young’s face, they did it using £15 worth of titanium and stainless steel nuts and bolts from the DIY chain B&Q...

4 - In 2007, British neurosurgeon Henry Marsh was forced to use a Bosch, DIY cordless drill, bought for £30 in a local market...

read more here -

http://timesonline.typepad.com/comment/2009/05/top-5-most-toecurling-impromtu-operations.html