World's best heart surgeon reveals the death of teen girl 'skewered like a kebab' haunts him
SEEING the paramedics' grim expressions and hearing the terrified whimpers coming from inside the ambulance, heart surgeon Stephen Westaby knew the situation was bad.
"She was left skewered like meat on a kebab stick," says the famous British heart surgeon, dubbed the 'world's best', who was working as a young consultant at the time.Staring into her 'pleading brown eyes', Westaby asked the teen her name, before she tearfully murmured six words he knew were accurate: "I'm going to die, aren't I?"
The surgeon, who lives with wife Sarah and their pet dog, treated around 11,000 patients during his extraordinary career before hanging up his scalpel three years ago.Westaby estimates that at least 300 of his patients died - including a man who bled out all over the theatre floor in a 'gruesome' tragedy.
"The main thing to do is to get the patient to hospital as quickly as you can and not try to treat it on site."For knife wounds, Westaby had a plan of action - cut open the chest, find the haemorrhage, sew up the bleeding points, then pump in blood to refill the circulation. At the time, death rates in heart surgery were high - and as he started taking on and losing his own patients, Westaby tragically became used to the process."I hated having to go and give parents bad news," recalls the surgeon.
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