"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"
Yeah, If there has been work done on the bones and sudenly a bit is missing...
Also, Are those screws supposed to be poking out? Doesn't that damage all the squisy bits?
Orthopaedic surgery is harrowing stuff... Think of 60's panelbeaters on your squishy stuff in amongst the bones
And the bone/leg just accepts it. We're pretty impressive creatures.
Speak for yourself.
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.
This one time, I got to have my femur cut mostly through with a saw then slowly bent (did you know bones are viscous?) open and filled in with bone spackle then bolted together with a plate at screws, which was unpleasant.
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!
I was gonna say, someone's clearly been in there to put that metal in, are we sure they didn't take a souvenir
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.
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.
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.
I’m not a doctor but I believe that piece of bone is fairly important
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.
I've just straight up cut one out because it got in the way of our bypass (I think fem to peroneal)
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.
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.
Instructions unclear, just finished removing part of my fibula to reduce my weight so I can get mad ups
I enhanced the x-ray and found this
The marvels of the human body
Hehe, marvels.
It renders as [OBJ] here. ... Or if it's the joke then that's pretty funny
This looks like the work of the Bone Fairy. The Bone Fairy is the Tooth Fairy's less patient cousin.
Hmmm... I thought that was already filled by the fang witch
not to be 'that guy' but its fake
Someone just had a bone to pick with you and they actually did it
Bone eating bacteria? Had that shit and lost part of my neck.
What the fuck, that shit exists? That's just about the most horrifying thing I've ever heard. Second to like, botflies.
Don't look up prions, then.
Thanks, I won't.
Skele-grow potion required
Fibula hasn’t rendered completely yet
Good thing they took the x-ray. Might have missed it otherwise.
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.
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"
All your bones are just waiting for a chance to escape
You ever get one of those random full-body shivers? That's your skeleton trying to escape its flesh prison.
Fibula Nolongata
Say, Bob, weren't you making soup this morning?
Just look which doctor has a nice new bone keychain souvenir.
Forgetting a screw is one thing... Forgetting a part of a bone...
When the patient woke up a part of his skeleton was missing and the doctor was never heard from again.
Anyways, that's how I lost my medical license.
Spooky
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