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Abandoned Chinese toddler to undergo surgery to remove third leg
Associated Press ^
| 08/07/03
| Staff Writer
Posted on 08/07/2003 12:40:23 PM PDT by bedolido
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:10:36 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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BEIJING (AP) A 1-year-old girl who was born with three legs and abandoned by her parents on a Beijing street is to undergo surgery to remove the extra limb, state media and a doctor said Thursday.
Doctors at Dongzhimen Hospital in the Chinese capital plan to study the limb for 20 days before operating, a doctor in the hospital's orthopedics department told The Associated Press.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abandoned; chinese; leg; remove; surgery; third; toddler; undergo
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posted on
08/07/2003 12:40:25 PM PDT
by
bedolido
To: bedolido
Is this a real doctor???
"The leg has a nerve in it..."???
Okay, I'm ready. Let's invade China.
2
posted on
08/07/2003 12:43:07 PM PDT
by
ChemistCat
(Transformers look just as good by morning light as they did the night before.)
To: ChemistCat
Invade their medical schools...
3
posted on
08/07/2003 12:44:35 PM PDT
by
cyborg
(i'm half and half... me mum is a muggle and me dad is a witch)
To: bedolido
I hear that many men on FR live productive lives with their third legs.
4
posted on
08/07/2003 12:48:14 PM PDT
by
rabidralph
(Arm Tibet.)
To: rabidralph
lol... been marriage for 32 years... lost need for mine a decade or so ago... mainly caused by who controls the nads (I get them once a month... the wife has full custody.
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posted on
08/07/2003 12:54:42 PM PDT
by
bedolido
(None of us is as dumb as all of us!)
To: bedolido
The poor little girl. I'm actually surprised they are doing this because baby girls aren't that highly thought of in China.
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posted on
08/07/2003 2:13:36 PM PDT
by
Mears
To: bedolido
Third leg,
Vestigular (sp) twin?
7
posted on
08/07/2003 2:15:15 PM PDT
by
najida
(What handbasket? And where did you say we were going?)
To: bedolido
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posted on
08/07/2003 2:43:18 PM PDT
by
bedolido
(None of us is as dumb as all of us!)
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