Dr Meryl Broughton: The patient was doomed, my surgical horror story
Our 21st century approach offers big improvements over those of the past
In the movie Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, the crew of the starship Enterprise take a trip back in time to Earth in 1986.
During their escapades, one member of the team suffers a head injury. Dr Leonard McCoy is horrified when the doctors of the day propose to treat the patient’s intracranial haemorrhage with a craniotomy.