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[–] [email protected] 176 points 1 month ago (13 children)

Not actually that rare to see. Reabsorption of bone is fairly common place in non unionized fractures that don't end up getting good blood flow. Osteoclasts will breakdown the bone fragments that don't unionize, especially if the bone isn't really responsible for weight bearing.

The only thing thats fake about this is a group of doctors being mystified by any of it.

[–] [email protected] 201 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Reabsorption of bone is fairly common place in non unionized fractures that don’t end up getting good blood flow. Osteoclasts will breakdown the bone fragments that don’t unionize

This is why it's so important to talk to your coworkers and get organized, if those bones were unionized this never would've happened.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

Bernie your bones, bro.

[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The only thing thats fake about this is a group of doctors being mystified by any of it.

Sounds more like a teaching opportunity, which was interpreted as an 'ah, they have no idea what is going on' moment.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago

My granma had a spinal disc missing entirely. It was just gone. Must've broken it at some point and didn't realize. She was mostly bedridden and moved very slowly with a walker, needed a lot of support. May she rest in peace (death unrelated to missing disc)

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Could also be bone eating bacteria.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Alas, my only regret!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Clearly the most obvious answer is bone-eating bones. Dirty cannibals.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Does this bone not assist with weight bearing?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wouldn't the patient miss the support that bone provided?!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Or, when his leg was being put back together they just straight up forgot to put it in during surgery.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I'm hearing that she should have joined a union?

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[–] [email protected] 99 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My only regret

Is that I have

Boneitis

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

oof ouch owie

[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 month ago (2 children)

God dang aliens takin our bones I tell you what

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I tell you what is always read as hwat.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago

Looks like the person must have lost it in accident that required installing the rod.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They could have financed at least two more seasons of lower decks, if they just released an official moopsy plushie

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago

Did they take it out when they put the pins in or maybe accidentally? I guess it could be infection. Crazy.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Btw, couldn't doctors just use git for your medicinal record? Every change is logged and attributed and all.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

nooo, that would be too easy. instead we should put tens of millions of taxpayers dollars into a closed source solution that hospitals have to pay thousands of dollars per month to use. (and it has like 12 critical vulnurabilities and the company refuses to fix them)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Only 12? Wow, so advanced.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Git blame whoever put in those screws

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Weirdest instance I can think of where somebody lost something important was a young woman doing a bouncy Irish stepdance on a sidewalk above a very steep embankment. Suddenly her phone flew out of her sweater pocket and she back-kicked it over the precipice.

[–] RedditRefugee69 6 points 1 month ago

I bet the same thing happened. Good eye.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Organ harvesters? .... Does your hospital engage in organ harvesting schemes of any kind?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Orthopods stuck the tibial nail in and probably decided that the fibula didn’t need to be fixed because it doesn’t do much so they didn’t bother. The bone then healed as a malunion.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Screws are not supposed to stick out of the bone either right?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You would think, I have a similar intramedullary rod in my leg, and my screws also stick out. Since the screws are there to hold the rod down the inside of the bone in place, they care more about that stability than the screws being a bit long.

I've been told that now that I'm healed, if the hardware is giving me problems, I can have them go in and remove it. Unfortunately, being in the US, that would probably be another 15-20 grand to have done (basically as much as I paid to have it put in when my leg was broken). So at least for now, even though I do have some hardware-related pain, it's not bad enough for me to justify the cost.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Unfortunately, being in the US, that would probably be another 15-20 grand to have done

Fucking hell. I told my doctors that the titanium in my arm was interfering with my rock climbing and weight lifting and they took it out. I think I paid some token fee.

In Europe, obviously

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

I’m wondering if it ai generated. The text at the top doesn’t look normal

Edit: wow we’re literally at the point of downvoting people for wondering something?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

If I remember right this screenshot has been around for a while

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I had a similar thing done and just looked at my pics of my xrays (was too poor at the time to get copies). None of mine stick out except maybe the head of one of the screws a little.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

AI probably stole your fibula to make crappy imitation fibulas!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Or God took it to create another gender. Check mate, evangelicals!

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

I would assume it was pulverized in whatever accident required the pins to be installed. What's more surprising than why it's missing, is why they didn't replace that section of bone with anything, while they were operating the 1st time.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

They don't need that part of the bone anyway.

/S

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Oh, I know what this is. OP, you just need to select a different floor.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

The forbidden car crash souvenir

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Well it's always in the last place you look

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Looks like someone had some extra parts left laying around when they put everything back together.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

see this is why you should always keep track of your bones

https://youtu.be/2gwA5mQD9Ck

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Classic fibula or, as we call it, the liar's bone. Can't trust it to be there when you need it.

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