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Meet Hong Kong’s replantation specialists, who have given hope to hundreds of patients with severed limbs

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Thirteen years ago, a 19-year-old Hong Kong man whose right hand was crushed by a machine making fishballs was rushed to a local hospital. It was the man’s first day at his factory job and he had ended up losing four fingers, orthopaedic surgeon Dr Ho Pak-cheong recalled. “He was only 19 years old and left with a thumb … no matter what [we] needed to figure out a way to help him,” he said. Paramedics who helped the man were able to salvage the severed fingers and Dr Ho...

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