An Irish Doctor in Peace And At War
“Not AB Smith. Not CPO Jones. Not a real person, it seemed, merely a nameless case. Overhead lights glared down. The smell of ether mingled with the bitter aroma of Dettol and the coppery tang of blood. The SBA seated at the table’s head lifted one of the patient’s eyelids and said, “He’s out, sir.”
Fingal watched as Barker poured disinfectant on a shattered right thigh where a rubber tourniquet controlled the bleeding. There was no time for personal niceties. In the next few hours three doctors... would have to perform more than fifty operations, and Fingal could feel the nausea of anticipation deep in his belly. The bone end, the femur, nacreous and jagged, stuck through the skin and muscle. The man had no foot and the lower leg and thigh were a mangled mess held on by a strip of skin.
“Right,” said Fingal, and bent to his work, concentrating on the surgical steps. Cut the remaining skin and drop the wreckage into a bucket. Take off the tourniquet and clamp the spurting blood vessels.MoreLess
Fingal watched as Barker poured disinfectant on a shattered right thigh where a rubber tourniquet controlled the bleeding. There was no time for personal niceties. In the next few hours three doctors... would have to perform more than fifty operations, and Fingal could feel the nausea of anticipation deep in his belly. The bone end, the femur, nacreous and jagged, stuck through the skin and muscle. The man had no foot and the lower leg and thigh were a mangled mess held on by a strip of skin.
“Right,” said Fingal, and bent to his work, concentrating on the surgical steps. Cut the remaining skin and drop the wreckage into a bucket. Take off the tourniquet and clamp the spurting blood vessels.MoreLess
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