In the absence of a medical doctor, Bolks used his limited medical training to perform amputations and to assist midwives.

While general practitioners are trained to perform amputations, they are not usually qualified to perform complex limb-saving operations like bypasses or balloon angioplasties.

She had performed amputations before, but never on open ground like this.

Day in and day out, for example, doctors and hospitals reap financial rewards by performing diabetes-related amputations, which are nearly always covered by insurance, experts say.

Marvin would constantly perform experiments or amputations on "Dear", but she would always be back to normal by the next commercial break.

"That boot camp looked like far too much hard work, so I backed off and learned about cutting up fish and how to perform amputations."

But in recent weeks it has performed amputations, appendectomies, hernia operations and other life-saving procedures that could be accomplished nowhere else within 50 miles.

Al-Beshi also performs amputations of limbs when required under Saudi Arabia's sharia law.

Out of either curosity or sadism, Frantisek began to experiment with the animals, performing surgical amputations, grafts, and glandular injections.

In Baldwin, as the physician for a sawmill, he treated accident victims and often performed operations and amputations with whisky as the only available anesthesia.