Surgeon Diagnoses Friend's Appendicitis Via Facebook
A British surgeon saved his former classmate's life by deducing from the friend's Facebook that he had appendicitis.
File this one under awesome: a long-lost acquaintance of 30-year-old Peter Ball saved his life.
When Rahul Velineni, a 30-year-old British surgeon working at Swansea Hospital, logged onto his Facebook account in the middle of his shift, he noticed that his former classmate, Ball (pictured) kept complaining about a sharp pain in his stomach.
But Velineni did what any good Samaritan would do: he offered his advice. But in true Facebook-fashion, he replied to Peter’s status update with a comment.
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