Doctors Can Prevent More Amputations With Limb-Saving Surgery

Doctors have been working for decades to find better ways to save people's damaged or diseased arms and legs and avoid amputations. Their work paid off for Jeff Bopp, a passenger in a sport utility vehicle near Columbia, Missouri. The Columbia Missourian, a community news organization, reported that the day had been going well for the 47-year-old Bopp. "We were leading a group of about 10 ATVs [all terrain vehicles] down a wooded trail," Bopp was quoted as saying,...

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