I recommend amputation...

The treatment for this is amputation.

Arm amputation causes a huge disability.

Well how about with higher levels of amputation?

Okay, so after your amputation, you healed up.

And it's produced a great amputation, a shallow view of human nature.

Now, there are approximately 185,000 amputation related hospital discharges every year in the U.S.

Arm amputation is usually caused by trauma, with things like industrial accidents, motor vehicle collisions or, very poignantly, war.

The question that was being asked of me was a different one, which was, did she also need an amputation?

I think a lot of times we hear about diabetics, diabetic ulcers, we just don't connect the ulcer with the eventual treatment, which is amputation, if you can't heal it.

So why was it that, just a few nights later, as I stood in that same E.R. and determined that my diabetic patient did indeed need an amputation, why did I hold her in such bitter contempt?

When I looked at the case sheet, I found that they had an actual arm, and the nerves supplying the arm had been cut, and the actual arm had been paralyzed, and lying in a sling for several months before the amputation, and this pain then gets carried over into the phantom itself.