In the third and final installment in the series about addressing struggles that amputees might face while receiving their care and investigating potential solutions to improve the lives of people with limb loss, Josh discusses how costs of treatment can be an insurmountable obstacle for some amputees as well as ideas for remedies that could begin to tackle it.

Citations for the sources used in this episode:

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BBC News. 2015. Quadruple amputee ‘unable to get best prosthetic’ – BBC News [Internet]. YouTube.com; [cited 25 April 2021]. Available from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFjCcjOvj9Y

Herbst Y, Polinsky S, Fischer A, Medan Y, Schneor R, Kahn J, Wolf A. 2021. Scan-Driven Fully-Automated Pipeline for a Personalized, 3D Printed Low-Cost Prosthetic Hand. [Internet]. [cited 18 April 2021] Available from https://engrxiv.org/tuq8k/  doi:10.31224/osf.io/tuq8k.