Just ask Henry Marsh, a British neurosurgeon who travels to Eastern Europe on a regular basis, and just gravitates naturally towards potential brain surgery the way Batman gravitates towards criminals. One day, he found himself in a familiar, brain surgeony situation—a woman with a tumor that would kill her if not removed—only sans the equipment, since at the time, the Ukraine wasn’t too hot on state-of-the-art medical gear, and were going through more of a state-of-the-tool-shed phase.
We’d imagine this is the worst case scenario that flashes through a doctor’s minds when someone shouts, “is there a doctor in the building?” For Marsh, it just meant he had to improvise with what he had. He drilled through the woman’s skull and removed the tumor using only some local anesthetics and a $65 Bosch cordless drill he happened to have with him for some reason. When the battery went flat, he dug in with his hands.
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