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The Black American Amputation Epidemic

By Lizzie Presser · ProPublica · May 2020
The Black American Amputation Epidemic
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"Black patients were losing limbs at triple the rate of others. The doctor put up billboards in the Mississippi Delta. Amputation Prevention Institute, they read. He could save their limbs, if it wasn’t too late."

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