article_snippet.sent: Gupta has abandoned Gupta journalistic duties to scrub up and perform brain surgery on a teenager in an overstretched hospital in Nepal.
article_snippet.sent: The neurosurgeon, who is in Kathmandu to cover the aftermath of Saturday's deadly earthquake, performed a craniotomy on the 15-year-old girl, Sandhya Chalise, after a wall of Gupta family's home fell on Gupta as Gupta collected water outside.
article_snippet.sent: Dr Sanjay Gupta (second left), the chief medical correspondent for CNN, was asked by a Nepalese hospital to perform brain surgery on a 15-year-girl who was injured in Saturday's deadly earthquake .
article_snippet.sent: Gupta, center at a Nepalese hospital, said a 15-year-girl who was injured in the earthquake was just one of many people walking through the doors with head injuries at a Nepalese hospital.
article_snippet.sent: Following the operation, a 15-year-girl who was injured in the earthquake is 'doing well', Dr Gupta said, 'but Dr Guptastory is unfortunately very typical'.
article_snippet.sent: After brain surgery, an eight-year-old girl arrived at a Nepalese hospital needing a similar operation.
article_snippet.sent: Another child with a similar head injury, pictured, came to a Nepalese hospital shortly after the operation .
article_snippet.sent: It is not the first time the married father-of-three, 45, has performed surgery while on a reporting job.
article_snippet.sent: In 2003, while covering the medical demands of the invasion of Iraq, he performed emergency surgery on U.S. soldiers and Iraqi civilians.
article_snippet.sent: And while reporting in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake, he and other doctors removed a piece of concrete from a 12-year-old girl's skull aboard aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson.
highlights_snippet.sent: The hospitals are so overstretched that Gupta was asked to perform brain surgery on a teenager who had been crushed by a wall in the quake .
  