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The Black American Amputation Epidemic

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.

Lizzie Presser ProPublica May 2020 30min Permalink

Health

Life and Limb

Inside the Rio Grande Valley’s amputation crisis.

Sophie Novack Texas Observer Mar 2019 15min Permalink

Crime Health

The Desperado

The story of Edward Averill, a blind man with one foot who robbed a bank in Austin, Texas.

Ciara O'Rourke The Atavist Magazine Jan 2019 40min Permalink