AmputeeA better kind of news desk
Reporting, real-world guides, and a little useful mischief for amputees, limb-different people, and everyone in their corner.
No inspiration-porn. We skip the sappy "overcame all odds" angle and just report the actual story.
For people who lose a limb to vascular disease or diabetes, the risk of a subsequent amputation is documented, significant, and consistently underemphasized in clinical practice. Here is what the research shows, who carries the highest risk, and what the gap in follow-up actually costs.
Physician Devina Wadhwa writes that the 'difficult' label tells us how a clinical encounter felt, not much about the patient. In prosthetics care, where socket fit complaints and insurance advocacy can look like friction from one side and medical necessity from the other, that distinction has downstream consequences worth knowing about.
Carl Gordulic joins Humotech as CFO, a week after the company appointed a dedicated HIPAA compliance officer. Two senior hires in rapid succession at a wearable prosthetics platform company is a recognizable pattern in medtech. Here is what the pattern usually means, and what it does not tell us.
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