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June 10, 2005

Strange But True!

By BILL SONES AND RICH SONES, PH.D.
Special to the Journal

Q. Is DIY ("Do It Yourself") surgery ever done?

A. Necessity mothers much, as they say, including the recent case of the 27-year-old mountaineer forced to amputate his own arm with a pocketknife after being trapped five days under an 800-pound boulder in a remote desert canyon. He eventually went back to climbing. Oddly, the climber as a kid was reportedly so squeamish during a biology dissection that he opted for the hard sciences.


 
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