Mac the knife reveals his operation desert storm

Guy's Hospital legend has it that in the 1970s surgeon Ian McColl, flew out to Libya, trekked on camel-back deep into the desert where, in a nomad's tent, he ministered to the ulcers and bunions of the infamous dictator, Colonel Ghaddafi.

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