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Boston doctors agonize over ‘ugly job’ of amputations

A woman in a Boston Marathon runners jacket at a makeshift memorial blocks from the finish line, April 17, 2013 (AFP, Stan Honda)

Doctors carried out at least 13 leg amputations after the Boston marathon bombings, and for the surgeons, it was an agonizing decision. “We just completed the ugly job that the bomb did,” said George Velmahos, Massachusetts General Hospital’s chief of trauma surgery, of the extreme operations that had to be…

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Chest pain severity not a heart attack indicator

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A high degree of pain does not make it any more likely that someone coming into the emergency room with chest pains is having a heart attack, researchers found in a study of more than 3,000 patients. The most severe chest pain was not a…

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