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Meet Tom Hackett — doctor who saved Lindsey Vonn's leg from amputation

Hackett's intervention prevented American skier Lindsey Vonn from facing leg amputation after a devastating injury at the ...

Lindsey Vonn faced leg amputation after devastating Olympic crash

Team USA alpine skiing star Lindsey Vonn suffered a brutal crash at the 2026 Winter Olympics that prematurely ended her run in the Milan Cortina Games and left her with a devastating injury. Vonn ...

Lindsey Vonn says her doctor saved leg from amputation

Lindsey Vonn credited her doctor with saving her leg from amputation in an Instagram video posted Monday, going in-depth on the severity of the injury she suffered in her devastating crash at the ...

Lindsey Vonn says surgery saved her from amputation

Lindsey Vonn narrowly avoided having her leg amputated after her devastating crash in the women's downhill at the Milan ...

Lindsey Vonn reveals how close she was to getting her leg amputated after frightening Olympics crash

Dr. Tom Hackett, an orthopedic surgeon, accompanied Vonn to Milan after she decided to compete with her left ACL tear, and she credits him for preventing amputation by performing a fasciotomy. Hackett ...

A Bangor doctor operated on the wrong foot. 7 years later, he did it again.

Acadia Foot & Ankle doctor Adam Darcy mistakenly performed surgery on a patient's right foot instead of their left in 2024. He made the same mistake in 2017 and was sued over it.

'Doctors told me to stretch, then I needed a pelvis amputation'

“Even after I learned that osteosarcoma could bring on amputations, I didn't think that could happen in the pelvis because I ...