One-limbed student graduates medical school

The triple-amputee is poised to become a pediatric specialist:

Kellie Lim, who became a triple amputee at age 8 because of bacterial meningitis, is to graduate from UCLA’s medical school on Friday, and she plans to focus on childhood allergies and infections disease.

The Michigan native, 26, does not use a prosthetic arm and manages to perform most medical procedures “” including giving injections and taking blood “” with one arm. She walks on a pair of prosthetic legs.

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