Revolutionary toe-to-thumb surgery restores hand function after devastating injuries

Scott Price was working with a wood splitter when it kicked out a fragment of a log, pinning his left hand against a metal plate and severing his thumb and forefinger. After his local hospital in Poconos, Pennsylvania, failed to reattach the digits, Price came to MedStar Health’s Curtis National Hand Center at Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore, which specializes in complex hand injuries and ...