Communication: the life blood of teamwork?
December 5, 2008
I was watching the news the other day and a really interesting story caught my eye. This was the story of David Nott, who was working as a surgeon in Congo for Medicins sans Frontieres, the international medical aid agency. The country has been war ravaged and Dr Nott was working at a hospital in Rutshuru when a 16 year old boy was brought in with a severely infected arm after it had been blown off in a gun fight and amputated by a doctor. The infection was so bad that Dr Nott knew the boy didn’t have long to live; the only option for his survival was a complicated operation to amputate the shoulder blade and collar bone as well as the arm.
Dr Nott had never carried out this operation before, and it would normally only be carried out in a well-equipped theatre with a lot of planning beforehand. But with the other option being certain death for the teenager, the surgeon decided to text a colleague in London whom he knew had carried out the operation before. Instructions were sent back over two text messages, and Dr Nott followed them to the letter. The boy survived the operation and has made a full recovery.
This is the type of story you rarely see in the media – a positive ending to a horrible event, and it was really inspiring to hear about someone thinking on their feet in a crisis situation and using really good communication with a colleague, across the world no less!
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