An orthopedic surgeon who is normally scrubbing up in Sydney's biggest hospitals has performed a back operation on an orangutan at a zoo. 9News
San Tans is Australia's oldest male orangutan and like many elderly men, he is struggling with arthritis while living at Sydney Zoo in Eastern Creek.San Tans is Australia's oldest male Orangutan."Apart from being a lot hairier – although some patients would give him a run for his money... his anatomy is very similar to that of a human," orthopaedic surgeon Paul Thornton-Bott said.
"We don't know if San Tans is ever going to be a candidate for hip replacement surgery so what we want to do is give him something that we know is going to take his pain away."
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