Firefighters cut ring of patientin accident and emergency

FIREFIGHTERS spent more than an hour at Southampton's A&E department last night helping to cut a ring of a patient's finger.

A crew from Redbridge were deployed to Southampton General Hospital after a plea from medics to help with a patient who needed a titanium ring removing from their finger.

A spokesman from Redbridge station said it was one of a number of similar calls they had responded to recently as they have specialist ring cutting equipment.

Comments(8)

The Mad Dog says...
11:41am Fri 8 Feb 13

I thought the word was OFF

burgerboy says...
12:10pm Fri 8 Feb 13

The Mad Dog wrote:
I thought the word was OFF
Also can you also tell us what a patientin is please.
echo office junior without a spell checker strikes again.

burgerboy says...
12:10pm Fri 8 Feb 13

The Mad Dog wrote:
I thought the word was OFF
Also can you also tell us what a patientin is please.
echo office junior without a spell checker strikes again.

burgerboy says...
12:10pm Fri 8 Feb 13

The Mad Dog wrote:
I thought the word was OFF
Also can you also tell us what a patientin is please.
echo office junior without a spell checker strikes again.

cliffwalker says...
12:22pm Fri 8 Feb 13

It's really not worth the effort of calling attention to DE's mistakes. If only their errors were solely typographical or orthographic.

sotonboy84 says...
3:53pm Fri 8 Feb 13

burgerboy wrote:
The Mad Dog wrote: I thought the word was OFF
Also can you also tell us what a patientin is please. echo office junior without a spell checker strikes again.
Yes. It's a very patient pub.

forest hump says...
7:20pm Fri 8 Feb 13

Good job is was not a patients finger off a ring!

huckit P says...
8:20pm Fri 8 Feb 13

An hour eh? In my day it only took a few seconds. But then we didn't have to complete risk assessments, health and safety surveys and the like. We just did the job!
It's a good job the story actually clarifies that the patients ring was on a finger.

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