David Nott, a surgeon with the volunteer group Doctors Without Borders, saved a teenage boy's life in the Congo - helped only by text messages. Nott, a vascular surgeon, realized that the sixteen-year old boy, whose left arm was bitten by a hippo, had no chance of survival unless he amputated the arm.

大衛(wèi)?諾特是志愿性組織無國界醫(yī)師組織的一名外科醫(yī)生，僅通過短信挽救了一名十來歲的剛果男孩兒。諾特是一名血管外科醫(yī)生，他了解到一名16歲的男孩兒的左臂被河馬咬傷，如果不截去手臂將無生存希望。

Since he had never performed this kind of operation before, Nott contacted a colleague in the UK who had. The two could only communicate by text message, as regular phone contact was impossible with the Congo's lack of connections. His colleague sent step-by-step instructions over the phone, and Nott successfully carried out the amputation, despite having only a primitive operations room and a single pint of blood to work with. The teenager is expected to make a full recovery.

因為此前他從未操作過這種手術，諾特聯(lián)系到英國一位有此類經(jīng)驗的同事。因為剛果通信網(wǎng)絡不健全，不能進行正常的電話聯(lián)絡，兩人只能通過短信進行交流。他的同事在短信中將操作步驟一步一步地發(fā)送給諾特，雖然手術室簡陋，只有一品脫血，諾特卻成功地完成了截肢手術。那個男孩兒有希望完全恢復健康。