that was me, I took it. I needed it for a potion
Btw, couldn’t doctors just use git for your medicinal record? Every change is logged and attributed and all.
Git blame whoever put in those screws
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)
Only 12? Wow, so advanced.
Well it’s always in the last place you look
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.
I’m hearing that she should have joined a union?
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.
Bernie your bones, bro.
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.
Maybe? But again, reabsorption is so commonplace that it’s not particularly a significant teaching opportunity. I
f we’re assuming that what this person claimed is true, the only real educational thing about this is how important it is to stick to the prescribed follow up care. This more than likely would have been caught during follow up imaging post reconstruction.
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)
Does this bone not assist with weight bearing?
Not really during normal ambulation, it mainly aids in stability and in certain range of motions in the ankle. Even less so in post traumatic reconstructions like in this particular image.
Maybe it was a teaching hospital like on the tv show scrubs?
Nah, I practice at a teaching hospital. Knowing about reabsorption is stuff you learn when you learn about osteoclasts in med school. If you make it to a residency without knowing about osteoclasts, something horrible has happened.
Nah i mean the teaching doctor might take the opportunity to show the residents an example of it, and the patient perspective given here is totally off, but they’re just guessing why a bunch of doctors are all gathered around to look at the xray.
Could also be bone eating bacteria.
Prob not, osteomyelitis is pretty nasty and would have been cause for revisional intervention. The limb would have been visibly swollen and the post op wounds prob would have been weeping a bunch of nasty pus.
Or bone eating surgeons
It’s prob boneitis
Clearly the most obvious answer is bone-eating bones. Dirty cannibals.
Another new fear now. Yay.
Wouldn’t the patient miss the support that bone provided?!
Nah, the fibula doesn’t really bear much weight, it mainly helps with ankle stability and helps with ankle rotation. Things that probably aren’t really a factor after the reconstruction that this patient acquired after their accident.
Or, when his leg was being put back together they just straight up forgot to put it in during surgery.
Haha, nah. You typically don’t excise bone fragments when you plan on putting them back together. That would force you to unnecessarily remove a bunch of soft tissue that surrounds/attaches to the bone.
Yeah, I was thinking more like it was shattered and they forgot to put in the titanium rod replacement.
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.
God dang aliens takin our bones I tell you what
My only regret
Is that I have
Boneitis
oof ouch owie
Moopsy!
They could have financed at least two more seasons of lower decks, if they just released an official moopsy plushie
There is actually a licensed moopsy plush https://www.masterreplicas.com/en-us/collections/star-trek/products/star-trek-lower-desks-moopsy-plush-10inch
Yeah, but it was released quite late
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.
I bet the same thing happened. Good eye.
see this is why you should always keep track of your bones
Looks like the person must have lost it in accident that required installing the rod.
Did they take it out when they put the pins in or maybe accidentally? I guess it could be infection. Crazy.
Looks like someone had some extra parts left laying around when they put everything back together.
Organ harvesters? … Does your hospital engage in organ harvesting schemes of any kind?
Screws are not supposed to stick out of the bone either right?
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.
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
at least we’re liberated now
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.
It sucks that they charge for copies. I’m in the USA and when I hurt my foot and got X-rays they just made me wait while they burned a CD.
Yeah, here in Japan it seems to be included (or at least extremely cheap). The US is a mess (having grown up there and worked in the healthcare industry there).
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?
Looks just like my X-rays.
Always have been. But don’t worry: this is Lemmy, where the points don’t matter.
If I remember right this screenshot has been around for a while
