CHARLOTTE YING, pictured, pieces together the crushed bones and torn flesh of 400 hands a year, mostly injured in worksite accidents.
Subscribe now for unlimited access.
$0/
(min cost $0)
or signup to continue reading
''A lot of other surgeons deal with life and death situations and save lives, I find hand surgery to be life giving,'' said the plastic surgery registrar at Canberra Hospital.
''Without even a finger a person may not be able to work.''
Her patients, often gruesomely maimed, indicate trends in Canberra society: unsafe workplaces, a disturbingly frequent inability to slice fruit without cutting ourselves and an increasing tendency to punch things.
FOCUS: Page 19