Three-armed boy to have surgery

Summary:

This baby is born with two left arms and he is going to undergo a surgery where the doctors will remove one of his left arms. However, the team at the Shanghai Children’s Medical Center is not sure how to proceed on their best. So they have to set a date for the operation. The boy, Jie-jie, cries when either of his left arms is touched. His arms aren’t fully functional so the doctors don’t know which arm will be removed. The upper left arm is very slim and is always bent, the under left arm only moves when it is pulled, and does not have a palm.


My opinion.

This baby is not very healthy, because it is also reported that he just has one kidney, so this can make difficulties after the surgery. My opinion is that the surgeons have to be sure to do the surgery to Jie-jie. Otherwise he can have problems when he is older. I think that it is better to do the surgery when he is a little bit older. Sometimes that is better than they operate when he is so young. But I am not a surgeon, so I do not know a lot of these things, I just wrote this, because I have seen a lot of operations where the surgeons are not sure and than the operation fails. That would not be so fine to Jie-jie and his parents.

http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/5032906.stm