Good for the surgeon to donate his time and good for him for being so compassionate and brave enough to be imaginative.

damm,we do need more doctors like this one.but most of them do this just for the money they forget their “juramento de ipocrates”,hey doc if i ever get to meet you i will love to shake your hand,people with ur talent and skills are hard to find,keep the good work and the good heart.

$65- for a tool to use in brain surgery? Heck, over here we could have bought 3 aspirin from the hospital pharmacy for that!!

Brilliant!

WHAT A GREAT STORY. THERE IS NOTHING LIKE WINNING A FIGHT, AND EVEN BETTER WHEN THE ODDS ARE AGAINST HIM.

CONGRATS TO THAT MAN

18 Volt would give better torque, speed, and the batteries last longer, but I guess he was in a country where those aren’t as plentiful as they are here in the US. Kudos to the Git’R'Done Doc!!

Breeze, you said it. we need more people in the world like him…

Now that is what a real hero is all about.

Bravo! Bravo! Bravo!

If this corageous doctors efforts and time were calculated with the scale used for the 5 minute, $1,200 visit by the delivery doctor who clipped the umbilical cord of our 1st child in 1988, this woman would be working off her debt for many years to come.

We need a few more doctors who live in the real world such as has been demonstrated by this one.

Madisonville, KY

This augers well for neurosurgery techniques.

Confirms, “If there is a will, there is a way!”

CONGRATS TO THAT DOCTOR!!!!

Great Job Doctor!

These Great Surgeons donate their time to help those who can’t afford help! BRAVO!

That is awesome. Too bad something like that would NEVER happen in the USA. Someone would’ve have sued somebody in this country.

“No general anesthesia”?

I was under the impression that brain surgery was always done with local anesthesia;
1. the brain itself has no pain receptors.
2. you need the patient aware and responding to ensure no harm is being done - exactly what the surgeon did.

Surgical tools, except for very specialized ones, are pretty much high quality versions of standard. The plate and screws that were in my leg look just like a hardware store mending plate and deck screws, only polished stainless steel, at first look. Even then, the differences are subtle.

Bravo Zulu to the doctor for taking action instead of hand-wringing.

I think that is incredible. Good for Dr. Henry. Maybe someone could have charged the battery or had a backup on hand so he didn’t have to use his barehands. I’d like to see this, hopefully the BBC will show this in the US.

Congratulations on such innovation! Lifesaving and creative. One can only hope that, unlike in the USA, the surgeon will not be sued.

What a helluva Doctor, eh!? :)

With infection running rampant in even quality hospitals in the U.S., how does “Dr. Field Expediency” avoid that issue while performing surgery in 3rd world situations?

@Charlie Brown: “With infection running rampant in even quality hospitals”

Well, you’ve given the answer already: by avoiding even quality US hospitals. Also substantially lowers the costs by not being in the most litigous nation in the world..

Well done to the doctor. I would like to donate the latest Bosch drill to him if it would help - it has a lithium cell and is thus less likely to run out mid surgery. Having said that, I think Bosch should GIVE such a set to him, just for the free marketing they got :-).