Comment Comment by burkaman Related: ProPublica investigation on doctors performing unnecessary amputations on poor black diabetes patients, because they don't pay enough attention to the patients and also get paid more to amputate.https://features.propublica.org/diabetes-amputations/black-a...Another link if you are skeptical there is a racial issue: page 12 of https://data.dartmouthatlas.org/downloads/reports/Diabetes_r.... Among Medicare beneficiaries with diabetes, black people are still way more likely to have a leg amputated. parent burkaman 3 years ago
https://features.propublica.org/diabetes-amputations/black-a...
Another link if you are skeptical there is a racial issue: page 12 of https://data.dartmouthatlas.org/downloads/reports/Diabetes_r.... Among Medicare beneficiaries with diabetes, black people are still way more likely to have a leg amputated.