They Sent Me There to Die

Authors

  • Issam Koleilat Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Keywords:

amputation, limb salvage

Abstract

Excerpt:

“They sent me there to die.”

He looked up at me, a man of no more than maybe 52 years. He, like many, had been tricked and conned and likely socially pressured into a tobacco addiction before the medical outcry once the long-term effects of nicotine became known and widely publicized. And as so many before him, he developed complications.

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Published

2020-11-02

How to Cite

Koleilat, I. (2020). They Sent Me There to Die. Ars Medica, 15(2), 6. Retrieved from https://www.ars-medica.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/1225