He worked with artificial limbs for decades. Then a lorry ripped off his right arm. What happened when the expert became the patient?
Jim Ashworth-Beaumont, an experienced clinician in prosthetics, found himself in a unique situation when a lorry accident resulted in the loss of his right arm. Despite the severity of his injuries, which included a punctured lung and a split liver, Ashworth-Beaumont survived the ordeal and spent six weeks in an induced coma as surgeons worked to repair his body. The accident left Ashworth-Beaumont, a former Royal Marine from Edinburgh, in a position where he became the perfect guinea pig for a radical new option for amputees. As he lay on the road waiting for the paramedics, he did not have the wherewithal to consider the irony of his predicament, as he had dedicated decades to working with artificial limbs. The article highlights the unique perspective Ashworth-Beaumont brings to the field of prosthetics, having experienced the loss of a limb firsthand.
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