A 63-year-old California man tried to operate on his own hernia by cutting open his stomach with a six-inch butter knife, the police said on Tuesday.
The man was apparently frustrated with the painful medical condition, and took matters into his own hands — alarming his wife, who immediately called 911. “She said her husband was trying to remove a hernia. He was frustrated,” said Sergeant Tom Lorenz of Glendale police, east of Los Angeles, after the incident on Sunday. “Pending arri-val of paramedics, he rem-oved the butter knife himself,” he said. The man was placed on a psychiatric hold — a legal term meaning confining a patient to prevent them from self-injury — and taken to hospital where he was reported to be stable condition. —AFP