Pioneering hand surgeon is former Guernsey resident
Saturday 5th January 2013, 10:00AM GMT.
Former Guernsey resident Professor Simon Kay with Mark Cahill, who has become the first person in the UK to have a hand transplant. (PA Pictures)
A SERIOUS burn to his hand in Guernsey inspired a former resident to perform Britain’s first hand transplant.
The eight-hour procedure, conducted by surgeon and former Elizabeth College pupil Professor Simon Kay, made national headlines yesterday.
It also made history as the world’s first hand transplant where the original hand was removed during the same procedure – previous recipients have already lost the hand before a replacement is found.
Prof. Kay, now 60, first came to Guernsey as a one-year-old and left at the age of 18 to go to medical school.
He specialises in the reconstruction of hands and trauma defects in children.
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Another feather in the Elizabeth College cap … well done indeed
Just one thought.If I needed a hand transplant and I had the choice of a male or female donor I’d be hard pressed to make a final decision
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IWV – have you seen Michelangelo’s painting “The Return of the Prodigal Son”? Look at the hands of the father in the picture. Looks like he was faced with the same dilemma!
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Pepe
Looks like he might have had his head transplanted too!
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I’d have a mechanical one.
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Wot! Petrol driven !!!
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You’ve been watching too much Star Wars!
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Rosie,
You would prefer a mechanical one??? Tut tut, what happened to your desire to re-cycle everything ? Surely a transplant is the ultimate form of re-cycling?
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