Doctors battling to save a severed wrist came up with a handy idea – they attached it to the patient’s foot.
Doctors battling to save a severed wrist came up with a handy idea – they attached it to the patient’s foot. This Chinese factory worker suffered a work accident and lost his right hand, surgeons couldn't reattach it immediately, so they replanted it on his ankle. Doctors drew on the blood supply from his leg to keep the hand alive until they could sew it back on a month later.