A recent report from WNDU in South Bend, Ind., examined the work J. David Prologo, MD, interventional radiologist at Emory School of Medicine, is doing to help amputees who are suffering from phantom limb pain.
The news outlet interviewed firefighter Gene Hull, who lost his right arm to cancer 10 years ago, about the pain he still faces all these years later.
“I’d be sitting in my office or teaching a class and I’d get those pains and it would just, you know, you can imagine what it’s like getting hit by a cattle prod," Hull said, as quoted by WNDU. "That’s the only thing I can equate it to.”
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