Doctor describes amputating girl’s leg in Gaza without anaesthesia ‘We were praying for her to faint’. Orthopedic surgeon Mark Perlmutter recounts amputating the leg of a five-year-old girl in Gaza without anaesthesia after supplies ran out during Israel’s genocidal war. He says doctors sang to her as she remained awake through the procedure.
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