Here is prime example how technology that we otherwise consider a pest, turns a savior. This news is of a British doctor volunteering in DR Congo, who used text message instructions from a colleague to perform a life-saving amputation on a boy. Vascular surgeon David Nott aided the 16-year-old while working 24-hour shifts with medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in Rutshuru. The boy's left arm was badly infected and gangrenous and required immediate medical attention. Nott had never performed a surgery but followed instructions from a colleague who had.

The surgeon, who is based at Charing Cross Hospital in west London, said: "He was dying. He had about two or three days to live when I saw him." Mr Nott realized that a forequarter amputation was needed, requiring removal of the collarbone and shoulder blade. He went on to contact Professor Meirion Thomas, from London's Royal Marsden Hospital, who had performed the operation before.
"I texted him and he texted back step by step instructions on how to do it," he said.

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