Health Equity

The Black American Amputation Epidemic

Abstract: 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.

Publication: ProPublica

Date Published: May 19, 2020

Author(s): Lizzie Presser

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