Could someone pick up an amputated limb at the clinic? Like a leg, say. It cannot be taken back. Amputations (except minor traumatic amputations of distal phalanges or entire toes) are not performed in the vast majority of polyclinics. Surgery is quite dangerous and requires in-patient observation. Although up to 10 years ago, when drug addicts were craving for "crocodile" (desomorphine, kicked out of codeine-containing analgesics), limb amputations took place after botched injections of the drug.