No surgeon could have saved his life and his legs.
A surgeon who suffered a heart attack while vacationing in the Bahamas saved his own life in just this way.
Three surgeons at Iberia General worked on him all night and saved his life.
"The French came, and their surgeon saved you."
For decades, freak accidents have caused people to lose limbs because surgeons couldn't save them.
Only a thoracic surgeon in a well-equipped hospital room could have saved him.
Brownlow had to be carrier from the field and almost bled to death before surgeons saved him.
The man had gestured upstairs because it was obvious that no surgeon could save the desperately wounded artillery officer.
The surgeons saved it, but it was touch and go for a while.
"The surgeon didn't save my life," he said.