Surgeon used Swiss army knife he uses to cut up lunch on a patient

The surgeon had said he couldn’t find a sterile scalpel (Picture: Shutterstock)A surgeon used a Swiss army knife to open up the chest of a patient in cardiac arrest because he claimed he could not find a sterile scalpel.The patient, treated at Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton in December 2023, survived, but the BBC has reported that internal documents show how colleagues felt the surgeon’s behaviour was ‘questionable’.The NHS trust that runs th