Sometimes primitive works the best.mayor wrote:not sure, but "needle-nosed pliers and a drill" sounds primitive.ELB wrote:And a better method would be...?mayor wrote:"Surgeons removed the nails with needle-nosed pliers and a drill..."ELB wrote:That reminds of a story some years back of some construction worker/drug addict who took whatever his chemical of choice was, got all morose, and decided to kill himself with his nail gun. He passed out in the process, woke up the next day not remembering anything of the previous day, but had one heckuva headache. So he went to the ER, they took some X-rays, and he had about 9 or 10 nails embedded in his brain. On both sides. It was a very interesting picture.
Update: OK, it was 12 nails http://www.nbcnews.com/id/12425803/ns/h ... ails-head/
remind me not to have surgery performed in Portland, Oregon.
I am sure some doctor and biomedical engineering company could come up with something that cost $500K that probably wouldn't work any better.
