“The treatment of amputees is in the dark ages, and COVID only made the dark ages darker,” said Dr. Demetrios Macris, a vascular surgeon in San Antonio, Texas.
Health Insurance and Costs
This project was produced as part of the 2021 National Fellowship with USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism.
Other stories by Natalie Krebs include:
"There used to be a time when license plates had numbers on it for each county based on population and Pulaski County was one and Jefferson County and Mississippi County were two and three."
Home designs imported to the Arctic from elsewhere are contributing to health problems that disproportionately affect Alaska Natives.
A teenage boy left at a hospital in December 2019 triggered 11Alive’s investigation into child abandonment. His mom says there’s a lot we don’t know about that day.
The #Keeping series shows how the challenges of raising children with severe emotional and developmental disabilities can lead to abandonment.
It took a seven-year fight to get Ava’s Law, which mandates insurance coverage for children with autism. Now Ava hopes her story can inspire a new battle.
“More workers have died from COVID-19 in the last 18 months in the meat and poultry industry, than died from all work-related causes in the industry in the past 15 years,” as one expert testified.
Comparing Medicare plans proves tough sledding — even for a veteran journalist tracking such plans for decades.
‘You’re really a second-class citizen’ if you live in this neighborhood.