Dr Meryl Broughton: The patient was doomed, my surgical horror story

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Dr Meryl Broughton
Dr Meryl Broughton.

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.