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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago

Git blame whoever put in those screws

[–] shoki@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days 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)

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Only 12? Wow, so advanced.

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 171 points 2 days ago (15 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.

[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 192 points 2 days 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.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 21 points 2 days ago

Bernie your bones, bro.

[–] Aganim@lemmy.world 92 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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.

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] xorollo@leminal.space 4 points 1 day ago

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

[–] BattleGrown@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days 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)

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Does this bone not assist with weight bearing?

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 18 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Could also be bone eating bacteria.

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Alas, my only regret!

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[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

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.

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

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.

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[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 99 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My only regret

Is that I have

Boneitis

[–] cypherix93@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago

oof ouch owie

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 78 points 2 days ago (2 children)

God dang aliens takin our bones I tell you what

[–] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I tell you what is always read as hwat.

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[–] ThatGuyNamedZeus@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago

that was me, I took it. I needed it for a potion

[–] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days 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.

[–] ApexHunter@lemmy.ml 37 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 7 points 2 days ago

Well it's always in the last place you look

[–] takeda@lemm.ee 42 points 2 days ago

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

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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.

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 34 points 2 days ago

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

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

https://youtu.be/2gwA5mQD9Ck

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 days ago

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

[–] huppakee@lemm.ee 17 points 2 days ago (8 children)

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

[–] MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days 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.

[–] logi@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

AI probably stole your fibula to make crappy imitation fibulas!

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

[–] Archangel1313@lemm.ee 11 points 2 days 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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