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In October, a British surgeon with MSF called David Nott conducted am amputation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on a war victim:
I knew that the only way to save him would be to perform a forequarter amputation – removing what remained of his arm, and his shoulder. It is an incredibly difficult operation [...]