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Passing surgeon comes to the rescue of cyclist

A cyclist who severed an artery when she fell off her bike was saved by a stroke of luck because one of the people who came to her assistance was a vascular surgeon. Denise Ledger, 57, would have bled to death within three minutes had John Thompson not stemmed the blood, which was spurting across the road “like a scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail”. (09/05) More