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Two investigative stories highlighted peripheral artery disease treatment that left many patients with an amputation, the outcome they were told they could avoid.

Kelly Hanna’s leg was amputated in 2020, after a Michigan doctor who called himself the “leg saver” had damaged her arteries by snaking metal wires through them to clear away

The New York Times found that with the financial backing of medical device manufacturers, one doctor has become a leader of a booming cottage industry that peddles risky procedures to millions of Americans.

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What is Charismatic, or Pentecostal, Christianity? If you want an answer to this and thousands of other related questions you could do no better than consult Diarmaid MacCulloch’s amazingly comprehensive and eye-opening book A History of Christianity (2009). There we read that “charisma” means a gift of grace, something associated with what MacCulloch calls the Trinity’s “Cinderella,” the Holy Spirit, and manifested in the direct expression of religious emotion by its adherents (calling out, rolling on the floor and spontaneous singing). “The rise of Pentecostalism and its Chari...