"After entering surgery, O'Brien woke up to learn that his blood pressure had dropped during the procedure. To save him, the doctor had made the decision to amputate just above the elbow."
I'd be more confident that this was a only an unfortunate and unexpected treatment outcome if I knew that the surgery took place in a trauma center in Washington DC and not in a rural hospital somewhere in the Philippines.
This being CNN they can't tell the truth.
Exactly. Enter a third world hospital for a bruised swollen arm, and you wake up with no arm. Ugh. Many regrets forever.