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Right wing news host Piers Morgan fell at a restaurant and broke his hip, undergoing hip replacement surgery (www.telegraph.co.uk)
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[โ€“] coolusername@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago

so I was curious
In most cases, older adults do not break a hip because they fall โ€” they fall because the hip has already fractured. The sequence is counterintuitive but well-documented in geriatric medicine.