article_snippet.sent: But as surgeons were printing out the paperwork to authorise the procedure, the antibiotics Douglas Murphy had been given finally began to show signs of working.
article_snippet.sent: Surgeons were preparing to amputate his right leg, when Surgeons noticed antibiotics given to the father-of-two had begun to work.
article_snippet.sent: It was not until they were printing out the paperwork to authorise the operation that the medicine finally began to work.
highlights_snippet.sent: Surgeons were preparing to amputate when antibiotics began to work .