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Quake doctors amputated legs with Leatherman

By Red Wolf

27 February 2011

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A Brisbane urologist has described how he and his colleagues used a hacksaw and a utility knife to amputate the legs of a man trapped in the earthquake rubble in Christchurch — via redwolf.newsvine.com

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