Doctor saves lives at home and in the Emergency Department
By Caroline Ponmani, Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine
Mohammed Fadhel, an Emergency Medicine Consultant at our Trust, found a pigeon in his garden badly mauled and bleeding with multiple lacerations.
Using quick thinking and clinical skills, he brought the bird indoors and sutured the lacerations, ably assisted by his daughters aged 3 and 17.
The bird seemed to sense that life saving treatment was taking place and remained absolutely quiet while the procedure was being done on a makeshift operating table in their kitchen.
The pigeon is doing well and Fadhel's daughters are hugely impressed with their dad; no mean feat as any parent knows!
All’s well that ends well.
Emergency Medicine; a speciality in its own right, useful to human and feathered friends in equal measure.