Surgeon Gabriel Weston: Blood, Guts & Being Human

“He’s holding a pair of rib shears, which resemble heavy pliers. With breastbone as epicentre, he defines a circle of ribs like a clock face and crunches through them methodically, his knuckles white from the effort... Then he puts the bone-cutters down and uses a big chisel to prise the sternum up and away from the chest. This makes a ripe plasticky noise, like cling film being ripped from a cardboard roll.” You…