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[–] [email protected] 170 points 10 months ago (2 children)

"No one has any idea" is code for "we know exactly what happened but we don't want to be sued for malpractice by admiting it"

[–] [email protected] 86 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, If there has been work done on the bones and sudenly a bit is missing...

[–] [email protected] 44 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Also, Are those screws supposed to be poking out? Doesn't that damage all the squisy bits?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Orthopaedic surgery is harrowing stuff... Think of 60's panelbeaters on your squishy stuff in amongst the bones

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

And the bone/leg just accepts it. We're pretty impressive creatures.

[–] cashews_best_nut 14 points 10 months ago

Speak for yourself.

[–] hperrin 10 points 10 months ago

Only for specific metals. A lot of metals are absolutely not biocompatible.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I had to intubate patients as part of my clinical time for paramedic, which meant time in the OR. Some surgeons would let us hang out and watch the surgery. Orthopedic surgery sounded like a cross between a construction site and an automotive shop. Die grinders, saws, and power drills.

Also, apparently knee replacement involves one guy doing MMA submission moves on the patient's leg while another goes at their exposed, hyper-flexed knee joint with a hammer and chisel.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Thanks! Now I'm nauseous...

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's very cyberpunk, really.

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[–] shalafi 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yep. I got wood screws sticking out my femur. Hurt like hell for a year or so, had to learn to walk again. Ached every winter for a decade.

No problem now, forget it ever happened. But I stand on my tippy toe like a girl from the remembered pain. Small price!

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[–] 9point6 20 points 10 months ago

I was gonna say, someone's clearly been in there to put that metal in, are we sure they didn't take a souvenir

[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago

You're so right. Seeing the hardware, it's post-op, so someone made a boo-boo. "No one has any idea" is code for: stalling for time to give the hospital's legal team a head start.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nope, that's straight up bullshit. It was either osteotomized in surgery (cut out), or it was missing as a result of the injury. Both of these are semi common in fractures like that and for the fibula it's fine. The fibula does not bear weight and really just helps add stability tonthe ankle joint, so as long as the lateral malleolus (the bottom of the fibula) is in tact there's usually no problem.

[–] Anticorp 35 points 10 months ago

There are several pins in the bones in the X-ray, so they definitely already had surgery, and I'd wager the surgeon has a pretty good idea of where the bone is.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I’m not a doctor but I believe that piece of bone is fairly important

[–] ArmyTiger 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The fibula isn't a weight bearing bone. The part near the ankle is important, as it's part of the joint, but the middle doesn't do much. It's frequently used for bony reconstruction, like for head and neck cancer surgeries.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

I've just straight up cut one out because it got in the way of our bypass (I think fem to peroneal)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Bet you couldn't run without it

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nerp. People that aren't doctors also sometimes believe drinking bleach cures covid. Please check with an expert before deciding which bones are and are not fairly important.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure what a nerp is, but they're not advocating for anyone to remove any bones. It's not a big deal.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Instructions unclear, just finished removing part of my fibula to reduce my weight so I can get mad ups

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I enhanced the x-ray and found this

The marvels of the human body

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Hehe, marvels.

[–] RustyNova 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It renders as [OBJ] here. ... Or if it's the joke then that's pretty funny

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Took a second to find a working image lmao

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 10 months ago

not to be 'that guy' but its fake

[–] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This looks like the work of the Bone Fairy. The Bone Fairy is the Tooth Fairy's less patient cousin.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago

Someone just had a bone to pick with you and they actually did it

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Bone eating bacteria? Had that shit and lost part of my neck.

[–] RGB3x3 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What the fuck, that shit exists? That's just about the most horrifying thing I've ever heard. Second to like, botflies.

[–] EatYouWell 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Don't look up prions, then.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Thanks, I won't.

[–] ma11en 23 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Skele-grow potion required

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago

Fibula hasn’t rendered completely yet

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

Good thing they took the x-ray. Might have missed it otherwise.

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

No doc or anything, but sort of looks like the top of the bone with pins has a dense section roughly the size of the missing part.

[–] PP_BOY_ 13 points 10 months ago

Walks into room with bone crumbs around my mouth and a mysteriously part-of-fibula-shaped bulge in my stomach

"Oh, geeze, uh, that's a weird one"

[–] BustinJiber 12 points 10 months ago

Fibula Nolongata

[–] NoSpiritAnimal 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

All your bones are just waiting for a chance to escape

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You ever get one of those random full-body shivers? That's your skeleton trying to escape its flesh prison.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just look which doctor has a nice new bone keychain souvenir.

[–] jopepa 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] AnUnusualRelic 10 points 10 months ago

Say, Bob, weren't you making soup this morning?

[–] creditCrazy 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

When the patient woke up a part of his skeleton was missing and the doctor was never heard from again.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Anyways, that's how I lost my medical license.

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