In a message dated 98-05-27 14:05:32 EDT, [email protected] writes:
<< Dr. Warren Breidenbach, the Louisville hand surgeon who will likely perform the first human hand transplantation, said he is totally confident in the technical aspects of the surgery itself....... .... he said in an interview he knows of many patients who would consider the risks to be outweighed by the potential benefits. "People can try using an artificial prosthesis but some feel their lives have been so severely altered by the loss of a hand. And if you lose a part of your body as an adult, it's very hard to learn how to compensate without it," said Breidenbach, a U.S.-born doctor who did 12 years of medical training in Alberta and Quebec before moving to Kentcky. >>
Dr. Breidenbach should be invited to the ACA meeting. Does anyone know his
level of contact with the amputee population and in what role?
Al Pike, C.P.
