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[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 173 points 1 week 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.

[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 196 points 1 week 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 22 points 1 week ago

Bernie your bones, bro.

[–] Aganim@lemmy.world 93 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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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[–] BattleGrown@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week 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)

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Could also be bone eating bacteria.

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

Alas, my only regret!

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 7 points 1 week ago

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

[–] flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

Or the moopsy.

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[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Does this bone not assist with weight bearing?

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

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

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[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week 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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[–] xorollo@leminal.space 4 points 1 week ago

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

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[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 98 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My only regret

Is that I have

Boneitis

[–] cypherix93@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago

oof ouch owie

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 78 points 1 week ago (2 children)

God dang aliens takin our bones I tell you what

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

I tell you what is always read as hwat.

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[–] takeda@lemm.ee 42 points 1 week ago

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

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

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

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 week ago

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

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

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

[–] shoki@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week 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 week ago

Only 12? Wow, so advanced.

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

Git blame whoever put in those screws

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 1 week ago

I bet the same thing happened. Good eye.

[–] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week 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.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 week ago

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

[–] huppakee@lemm.ee 17 points 1 week ago (6 children)

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

[–] MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week 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 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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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[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 4 points 1 week 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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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

AI probably stole your fibula to make crappy imitation fibulas!

[–] TomAwsm@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Archangel1313@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week 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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Oh, I know what this is. OP, you just need to select a different floor.

[–] VaalaVasaVarde@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 week ago

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

/S

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

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

https://youtu.be/2gwA5mQD9Ck

[–] prembil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago

The forbidden car crash souvenir

[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 7 points 1 week ago

Well it's always in the last place you look

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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