The aircraft’s medical kit had a urinary catheter and lignocaine, a local anaesthetic, but “there the routine equipment ended”, Wallace later wrote. “Within five minutes the patient had almost fully recovered,” Wallace wrote in the British Medical Journal. Matt recalls being provided with something that looked like a “toy stethoscope” when he asked the crew what medical equipment was on board. Another two medical professionals came to help, one a junior doctor. If you were to have an in-flight medical mishap, you could not hope for better luck than Dorothy Fletcher.

Source: The Guardian February 08, 2026 23:00 UTC