Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a CNN medical correspondent and practicing neurosurgeon, and U.S. Navy surgeon Lt. Cmdr. Kathryn Berndt perform surgery on a 12-year-old Haitian girl with a severe head injury aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) Jan. 18, 2010, while off the coast of Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
The sugeons removed a piece of concrete from the child?s brain after the girl was injured during an earthquake. Carl Vinson and Carrier Air Wing 17 are conducting humanitarian and disaster relief operations as part of Operation Unified Relief after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti Jan. 12, 2010. (U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael C. Barton/Released). Original public domain image from Flickr