Dec
14
2008
Two Text Messages to Save a Life
In a story of great courage, great talent and the best of technology, a boy’s life is saved from certain death.
David Nott, a British surgeon working voluntarily with Medicins Sans Frontieres, and two Congolese surgeons operated on their patient, a child only identified as J, using instructions sent to them via text message from the Azores, a Portuguese archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean. More

