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Marcus Engel’s hands are everything. He uses them to navigate around his home, to read braille and to handle his seeing-eye dog.
When Marcus was recently bitten by a snake on the hand, the thought of losing his limb was devastating.

“I knew that the possibility of losing my hand was in there,” said Engel.
In this story from AdventHealth TV, see how our emergency department and surgical teams led to Marcus’ recovery.
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