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What’s It Like To Be a Hand Surgeon?

2023-12-20 42 Dailymotion

Credit: SWNS / Nick Pappas<br /><br />A surgeon has revealed the unique things he's removed from people's hands - including sea urchin spines, fishhooks and bullets.<br /><br />Nick Pappas, 43, has been a practising orthopaedic surgeon for 10 years and spends his time removing foreign objects, inserting metal plates and re-attaching fingers.<br /><br />The hand specialist shared a list of recent things he's removed from hands.<br /><br />First up on the list is screws - with Nick saying he often has to establish the brand of the screw to allow him to use the correct screwdriver to remove it.<br /><br />He has also removed sea urchin spines after a patient fell onto one of the creatures - leaving spines embedded as far as the bone.

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