Wasn’t the Dan Vogel theory more that it was a more direct rebuke of his father and kind of saying ‘I can do this surgery without alcohol so you should be able to go through your regular life without it’ kind of thing? Or am I misremembering?
I think Vogel is also the one who said Joseph’s mother’s story where she insisted that the doctors not amputate when they wanted to was likely a later reworking of the story in her mind since the doctor who performed the surgery was pretty rare at the time in regularly not suggesting amputations in this sort of case and probably wouldn’t have shown up for a (relatively) simple amputation.
