Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150910:02:49:00
Most leg amputations resulted in death. the high on the leg amputation, the higher the likelihood of death. mary worried that some doctors were doing hasty unnecessary amputation. her biography describes how she tried to reduce the number of amputations. she began a process of double checking a patient's wounds whenever she heard one of the suspect doctors intended to remove a limb if she thought surgery was unwarranted she counselled the soldier and told soldiers not to reveal she had counselled them. in later years, she insisted that many a man today has the perfectly good use of his limbs w...