My friend Ramona, recently posted about the Orlando, Florida student, Linda Lu, who has just received a hand transplant in her blog Suture for a Living.  Dr. Bates is a surgeon and also a phenomenal quitter.  So you see she certainly understands how important her hands are, yet she noted, “Just because we can do a procedure, doesn’t mean we always should.” I share her sentiments.
As a life care planning expert in amputation injury and limb loss, I find hand transplantation somewhat disturbing.  I can appreciate the technology and biological …

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This past weekend I was interviewed by Steve Brawner of Arkansas Medical News.  He is working on a story regarding Arkansas medical bloggers.  Arkansas’ own stitcher extraordinaire, Dr. Ramona Bates was the first.  Her blog, Suture for a Living, focuses on her occupation as a plastic surgeon as well as her stitching past time as a quilter.  Other Arkansas bloggers include Elizabeth Schneider, a pathologist at Baptist Health, who writes Methodical Madness and John House whose runs Health By Dr. House.  I was surprised to be …