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Pa. doctors amputate man’s foot on train tracks

The doctors are trained in performing operations in the field, and crawled under the train to perform the surgery with limited tools

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PHILADELPHIA — A man is recovering from utterly dramatic emergency surgery performed on railroad tracks in Northeast Philadelphia.

It was in the middle of the night when Doctors Megan Stobart-Gallagher and Melissa Kohn of Einstein Medical Center got the call.

“It was a little surreal I think it’s a situation where you act and think about it afterwards,” Stobart-Gallagher said.

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