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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: 5, Interesting) by Capt. Obvious on Sunday October 30 2016, @04:43AM
I'm responding assuming you either are staff, or are somehow speaking for them/known them.
No. I'm here to discuss stuff that is happening. I'm here to discuss new technical discoveries. I'm even here to discuss different divides in base modes of thinking (e.g. liberal/conservative, osx/linux/windows, etc.) I'm not here to discuss easily disproven rumors, clickbait, etc.
Curation is a vital part of developing a set of news stories I want to engage in. Something is not news just 'because it is being said". Something is not news just because news agencies are covering it. Frankly, there are better sources of echo chamber like news (e.g. cable).
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday October 30 2016, @10:29AM
Which is exactly why I sub the occasional shit story. I want us to rip on bad journalism instead of letting it slide on by unremarked as if we approve of it.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Capt. Obvious on Monday October 31 2016, @01:17AM
Nowhere was I aware that "ripping on journalism" is part of this site's expected outcomes. If that's the case, it should be explicitly marked as such, because I was confused by it, and I'm pretty smart. I highly recommend that that use be either clearly flagged as such or pushed to a different site. Because, as of now, it's like being "ironically racist". I cannot tell the difference, and am going to treat you accordingly. That is, far from using the power of SN to condemn something (which I only was aware of because it was on SN), you've soiled SN's reputation in my mind./p.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday October 31 2016, @02:23AM
We've had promoting good journalism as a founding principle since forever. Part of that is necessarily pointing out bad journalism for contrast.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Capt. Obvious on Monday October 31 2016, @04:31AM
You didn't point it out, you merely included it in with other stories. And I don't believe its necessary to refer to bad journalism on invented topics. There's enough on important topics.