Doctor performs brain surgery with store drill

[Ivan Seeking]

"We have no (neurosurgical) instruments at the hospital. ... He was dying, so I had no choice but to run to a hardware store to buy a drill and use the pliers that I fix my car with, of course after sterilizing them," Cesar Venero told Reuters in a telephone interview."

http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/07/11/offbeat.brain.reut/index.html

[8)] yikes!