Patients Lost Limbs as Doctors and Health Care Giants Prospered.

The article reports on how device makers and doctors are allegedly reaping profits for promoting artery-opening procedures to patients with peripheral artery disease, with many patients losing their limb due to amputation in the process. It cites the case of Doctor Jihad Mustapha, who recommended the procedure to his patients to allegedly avoid amputations. Also cited is the claim by experts that even patients with severe artery disease should not take the procedure in short period of times.