[jyothi]

There have been many cases of self-surgery under extreme circumstances. Coincidentally stumbled upon a list of 10 incredible ones. http://listverse.com/2008/12/09/top-10-incredible-self-surge...

[Evgeny]

Which I submitted a couple of days ago but it did not become noticed

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1049663