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In 2003, hiker Aron Ralston amputated his own arm with a pocket knife after a boulder fell and pinned him down. http://hike.mountainzone.com/2003/news/html/030

• jodrellblank 17y ago
  "Ines Ramírez Pérez is a peasant woman living in rural Mexico. She had no medical training, but nevertheless performed a successful Caesarean section on herself: both she and her baby survived" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In%C3%A9s_Ram%C3%ADrez http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In%C3%A9s_Ram%C3%ADrez
  • aarongough 17y ago
    I remember being seriously grossed out the first time I read that story. And, yep. It still grosses me out now!
  • tomjen2 17y ago
    I always believed that people like her should be granted a medical license. If she can do that, she can be a surgeon.
• colbyolson 17y ago
  That story still gives me the chills when he describes how he cuts into the dead flesh of his arm and the gases hiss out of the cut. Ew x 10.