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Article: A STEP AHEAD OF DIABETES; PODIATRIST HELPS NATIVE AMERICANS PREVENT FOOT, LEG LOSS.(SERIES: Native American History Month)(Local)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- November 30, 2001
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Byline: Glenn Coin Staff writer; The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Reed Burk knows how something as simple as an ingrown toenail can lead to the amputation of a leg.
While in medical school, Burk helped treat diabetics on the Winnebago Reservation in Nebraska. There he saw the ravages of diabetes, which afflicts Native Americans in greater percentages than any other ethnic group.
"I saw a part of our nation's health care that I had been completely unaware of," said Burk, the new part-time foot doctor at the Oneida Indian Nation health clinic in Oneida. "I didn't realize what a tremendous problem existed among the Native American ...