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A surgeon at the Royal Sussex Hospital in Brighton used a Swiss Army Knife to open a patient's chest during an emergency operation, claiming he could not find a scalpel.
The incident caused outrage among the British medical community, with former consultant surgeon and expert witness on clinical negligence, Professor Graeme Poston, telling the BBC, “It surprises me and appals me. Firstly, a penknife is not sterile. Secondly, it is not an operating instrument. And thirdly all the kit [must have been] there."
The patient survived the incident, but it raised questions about the surgeon's methods and his credibility as a qualified surgeon. The BBC later discovered that the same surgeon had three patients die after performing what were supposedly low-risk surgeries.
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