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"A former soldier cut off two of his gangrene-ridden toes with a pair of tin metal pliers without anesthetic in his living room after becoming frustrated at a six-week delay to being operated on by the National Health Service (NHS)."
[...] "He says he eventually developed gangrene and his doctor said his infected toes would have to be removed. Rather than wait six weeks for the operation, Dibbins took matters into his own hands.
He says the operation, performed without pain killers and in his living room while biting on a rolled up towel, took about an hour. His wife of 40 years was in the house but says she did not want to look.
“Knowing that it would take at least another six weeks to get me in front of a surgeon again, that’s when I bit the bullet and cut off the toes,” Dibbins told the North Devon Journal.
“I did it because it’s what had to be done. My doctor told me my toes were going to kill me."
https://www.rt.com/uk/364152-gangrene-frostbite-toes-cut/
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 30 2016, @12:45AM
I'm terribly saddened by the current state of American media and am pretty damn-well convinced that there is a mass-organized collusion between government elements and news personnel, possibly even confidential plants.
What these organizations are not telling us is they are all monetary failures at this point. They have gone all in on eye ball advertising kool aid. It is all the have left. Hiring people who know what they are doing is expensive. Pundants that talk and talk and talk control the airwaves. As they draw in viewers. Actual news is controlled to fit whatever narrative the boss is contributing to this week. Interns are cheap and 'know the internet'.
Billionaires have started collecting them like coins. The reality is about 6-8 corporations with major stakeholders of said billionaires are using them to set the agenda they want. The internet has completely changed the landscape of how news is done. In a sea of information only eye catching click bait draws people in. Competition amongst the big ones is low. But the volume of what they spit out is very high. Then they have to compete with every other yonk out there that things putting up a 'blog' or 'tweet' is making news.
A few years ago you waited until the evening paper. Then the 6/11oclock news to find out what was going on. Then it morphed into 'just turn on CNN and find out'. Now everyone just pops onto reddit or twitter and see what everyone is chatting about. We went from an army of people trying to 'get the scoop' to an army of people trying 'to get the click'.
Now if you will excuse me I need to find out the top 10 ways my shampoo is killing me and number 8 is supposed to be cray cray.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday October 30 2016, @12:59AM
What those idiots fail to understand is that even a retard can see what is going on. As an example close to me, the San Diego UT Paper. You see a mouthpiece of conservative establishment go liberal establishment overnight with a new buyer, and of course you're gonna see a death-spiral of subscriptions.
The conservatives subscribing to your paper consider you a traitor, and the liberals consider you too inconsistent to trust in the long-term.
Those people like me who prefer to read a dead-tree newspaper every morning will just say, "Fuck it" and go fuck off to the internet where (amazingly) journalism can still live without turning yellow.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 30 2016, @03:54AM
Our local Buffalo News is owned by Buffet, seems to be holding a steady course. The coverage isn't quite as good as it used to be, but there are still reporters that go out and research stories. No huge change in political outlook, fairly moderate, they often endorse local candidates from different parties.
Recently a weekend feature is reprinting front pages from 50 years ago (Vietnam war and space-race news are prominent) and the difference is interesting. Back then the front page might have included a dozen stories and more little headlines pointing inside, these days it's more like five or six stories on the front page...in a larger font.