So many people with type 2 diabetes are losing limbs that it is now seen as normal – and we desperately need to take action
During the years I practised as a hospital doctor I saw only one amputee. He’d had his lower leg amputated for bad circulation worsened by smoking . He wouldn’t give up his Woodbines, though, not even if his other leg was in jeopardy … It’s a totally different picture today. Amputation is becoming commonplace – as a complication of diabetes. And no one seems worried … That’s because so many people are obese and it’s accepted as normal. Fat people develop Type 2 diabetes, and that, in turn, has become ‘normal’ … read more