James Bond: why doctors say he should be dead
James Bond has cheated death for more than 50 years but doctors say Skyfall should have killed him off in seven minutes
By
Anita Singh, Arts and Entertainment Editor
6:15AM BST 08 Apr 2015
As the world’s suavest secret agent, James Bond has survived 23 films while barely breaking a sweat.
Witness Skyfall, the most recent 007 outing, in which Daniel Craig’s only concern after jumping from a digger on to a moving train was to readjust his shirt cuffs.
If Bond’s adventures were true to life, however, he would have lasted seven minutes into that film before meeting his death.
A panel of medical professionals has concluded, unsurprisingly, that action films are not very true to life.
In the case of Skyfall, the moment Bond is shot with a depleted uranium shell seven minutes in “would have turned his lungs inside out and killed him”.
Even if he had survived that, the uranium shell fragments “would greatly increase his cancer risk”. And the rest of the film does not treat him kindly. Removing a bullet from his shoulder in a spot of DIY surgery “risks blood loss, lack of consciousness, nerve and muscle damage and the infection risk is huge”.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/cel...s-Bond-why-doctors-say-he-should-be-dead.html
Lots of pics.
But shouldn't these doctors be doing something useful, like, er, treating patients?