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When it’s time to save a limb, novel clinic meets unhoused people where they are
A novel clinic by Massachusetts General Hospital is providing urgent medical care to prevent limb amputation for unhoused individuals. Carlton Haynes, an unhoused person with a severe shin wound, was directed to emergency treatment by vascular surgeon Anahita Dua to avoid amputation.
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