Doctor Returns Amputated Arm to Owner After 47 Years
An American doctor, who kept the bones of a patient’s amputated arm as a bizarre wartime memento, has returned them to the man 47 years later.
Dr Sam Axelrad took the arm bones home to Houston from Vietnam in 1966 after his medical colleagues boiled off the flesh, reconstructed the arm bones and gave them to him as a souvenir.
The doctor flew to Vietnam to meet the amputee, former North Vietnamese soldier Nguyen Quang Hung, after he found the bones in a military bag in his closet where they had sat for decades.