A butcher has won a £250,000 payout after a series of medical blunders led to his leg being amutated.

Ian Watts from Rochester has been left severely disabled following the incident.

He was initially admitted to Medway Maritime Hospital with an infection in his little toe in 2004, which doctors said they could treat by amputation.

Although the toe was removed, Mr Watts’ condition deteriorated and his left leg below the knee had to be amputated.

Much to Hubner’s surprise, McMillian walked out of the office with his new prosthetic leg with no assistance.

“He looked like he’d been walking on it for 10 years,” Hubner said.

Prosthetics are continuing to advance in technology improving the lives of those that need them.
A few examples of this great technology are in the following story.

Before now walking with many types of prosthetic foot has been a conscious process in which an amputee must think about where and how to put their foot down. By contrast, the carbon fibre springs and hydraulic dampers in Echelon combine to put it in the right position as it is put down to take a step.

Technicians at A Step ahead in Hicksville are now impregnating a silicone leg with fire-retardant compounds for an amputee firefighter.

“We’re going to really trick it out for him,” said Erik Schaffer, founder and president of A Step ahead. “It’s going to look so hot.”

the skin that A Step ahead fits over high-tech prosthetics is made of the company’s proprietary form of silicone.

Two doctors who amputated the healthy leg of an 86-year-old man in a social security hospital were fired today, under the charges of “serious misconduct.”

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