{"id":19607,"date":"2025-08-02T11:37:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T09:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/02\/he-worked-with-artificial-limbs-for-decades-then-a-lorry-ripped-off-his-right-arm-what-happened-when-the-expert-became-the-patient\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T11:37:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T09:37:23","slug":"he-worked-with-artificial-limbs-for-decades-then-a-lorry-ripped-off-his-right-arm-what-happened-when-the-expert-became-the-patient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/02\/he-worked-with-artificial-limbs-for-decades-then-a-lorry-ripped-off-his-right-arm-what-happened-when-the-expert-became-the-patient\/","title":{"rendered":"He worked with artificial limbs for decades. Then a lorry ripped off his right arm. What happened when the expert became the patient?"},"content":{"rendered":"

An experienced clinician in prosthetics, Jim Ashworth-Beaumont found himself the perfect guinea pig for a radical new option for amputees<\/p>\n

When the air ambulance brought Jim Ashworth-Beaumont to King\u2019s College hospital in south-east London, nobody thought he had a hope. He had been cycling home when a lorry driver failed to spot him alongside his trailer while turning left after a set of traffic lights. The vehicle\u2019s wheels opened his torso like a sardine tin, puncturing his lungs and splitting his liver in two. They also tore off his right arm. Weeks after the accident, in July 2020, Ashworth-Beaumont would see a photo of the severed limb <\/strong>taken by a doctor while it lay beside him in hospital. He had asked to see the picture and says it helped him come to terms with his loss. \u201cMy hand didn\u2019t look too bad,\u201d he says. \u201cIt was as if it was waving goodbye to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ashworth-Beaumont, a super-fit and sunny former Royal Marine from Edinburgh, would go on to spend six weeks in an induced coma as surgeons raced to repair his crushed body. But as he lay on the road, waiting for the paramedics, his only thoughts were that he was dying. He did not have the wherewithal to consider the irony of his predicament.<\/p>\n

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\nAn experienced clinician in prosthetics, Jim Ashworth-Beaumont found himself the perfect guinea pig for a radical new option for amputees
\nWhen the air ambulance brought Jim Ashworth-Beaumont to King\u2019s College hospital in south-east London, nobody thought he had a hope. He had been cycling home when a lorry driver failed to spot him alongside his trailer while turning left after a set of traffic lights. The vehicle\u2019s wheels opened his torso like a sardine tin, puncturing his lungs and splitting his liver in two. They also tore off his right arm. Weeks after the accident, in July 2020, Ashworth-Beaumont would see a photo of the severed limb taken by a doctor while it lay beside him in hospital. He had asked to see the picture and says it helped him come to terms with his loss. \u201cMy hand didn\u2019t look too bad,\u201d he says. \u201cIt was as if it was waving goodbye to me.\u201d
\nAshworth-Beaumont, a super-fit and sunny former Royal Marine from Edinburgh, would go on to spend six weeks in an induced coma as surgeons raced to repair his crushed body. But as he lay on the road, waiting for the paramedics, his only thoughts were that he was dying. He did not have the wherewithal to consider the irony of his predicament. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An experienced clinician in prosthetics, Jim Ashworth-Beaumont found himself the perfect guinea pig for a radical new option for amputees When the air ambulance brought Jim Ashworth-Beaumont to King\u2019s College hospital in south-east London, nobody thought he had a hope. He had been cycling home when a lorry driver failed to spot him alongside his …<\/p>\n

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