The Salmon of Knowledge: Stories for work, life, the dark shadow and oneself by Nick Owen

Author:Nick Owen
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781845903633
Publisher: Crown House Publishing
Published: 2009-06-17T14:00:00+00:00

4.7 Difficult Conversations

In 1920, King Alexander of Greece was bitten on the leg by his pet monkey. The bite became infected and the poison quickly spread into the royal bloodstream.

Eminent doctors and surgeons from far and wide across Europe were summoned to the royal bedside. They all knew what had to be done. The leg would have to be amputated. But this was a difficult conversation that none of the doctors was prepared to have. To suggest the removal of a royal limb was unthinkable.

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