George Magill, the doctor who ran the wound clinic, had become so sensitized to seeing the effects of diabetes on the feet of Williams County residents, he could spot the diabetics in Walmart with their slight shuffle, the foot slide, a gait that seemed a little off because people couldn’t feel their feet. Twelve percent of adults—including 16 percent of all men and 27 percent of all people over age sixty-five—in Williams County had been diagnosed with diabetes. More probably had it but didn’t know.
