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One time I was in the ER, and a doctor noted that my heart beat has a rather pronounced split s2 rythm which is something that doctors need to learn to discern when listening to a heartbeat, so for the next hour as I was waiting around, I had several other younger physicians stop by and say “hey I was told to come listen to your heartbeat.”
Made me feel a little special in a very peculiar way I haven’t known since.
A girlfriend’s father had a condition where his organs were mirrored to the opposite side of the body and his circulatory system ran backwards (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situs_inversus)
Him and his family doctor loved bringing new coworkers in to do a “liver check” or something like that, and watch the person probe around with their hand and slowly get confused, then kind of freak out, when they couldn’t find organs in the body.
They did it for many years and both thought it was hilarious.
I’m left-handed and always secretly wished I had this and a right-handed twin so we could literally be mirror copies of each other.
Couldn’t they just, you know, simulate it on a computer? Or listen to a recording? I guess it’s possible you’re very old.
Not a doctor, but am in various situations where I have to pick sounds out. There’s something very valuable about having a natural example, especially if the person listening has to find that example all on their own.
They were told they should listen to the heartbeat. Also I’ve worked at several colleges, I’ve seen what they train with - it’s very impressive. They can definitely simulate it today
Notice how you used the word simulate?
Until you use the world “replicate” I’m going to go ahead and say that real world experience is still better. Maybe not much better… but when it comes to doctors, I’ll take “just better” 7 days a week.
A simulation and a replication are the same thing. Neither word implies anything about quality or reliability.
One is about an action and the other an object typically in this given context.
Replication would also more accurately be the repetition of something. So a repeated simulation of a heart beat is a replication of a heart beat.
Don’t infer meaning in meaningless word choice where no meaning is implied.
Can’t have shit in Detroit
As a person who has successfully stolen shit from Detroit? I dont think youre correct.
PS : Detroitians. Please lay off the deep dish pizza. AND eat more fibre please!
They didn‘t put everything back after the operation. That’s how I end up with random screws after any repair I do.
[doctor sweeping piece of bone under carpet after surgery]
They try to use it in the next operation. Somebody out there with mismatched bones. One leg longer than the other.
Best comment I’ve read on Lemmy today. :D
This is just long enough to make a literal skeleton key
It probably was not recoverable when they repaired whatever made that Titanium splint and screws neccesary.
Edit: apparently the middle portion of the fibula is so non-essential for weight-bearing that it is the most common bone harvested for bone grafts elsewhere in the body
Oh so the caption is completely made up
Based on what I read after, given the injury to the Tibia, Mabe the Fibula’s middle was sacrificed for a bone graft, rather than cutting open his good leg as well.
If it makes you feel better, the picture is also old as fuck.
“Do you want the good news or the bad news first?”
“The good news”
“We’re going to name the disease after you”
“Well, then what’s the bad news?”
“We’re going to name the disease after you”
I got into a car crash and went to the ER to get an X-ray done to make sure nothing was off, not this was a week after the crash. Anyways hurt like a bitch and after awhile of waiting the X-ray gets done and the tech just kinda looks at it for a minute, turns to me and says “Two bits of good news, your knee is just inflamed and swollen no breaks, also Ive been doing this for awhile and your bone density is absurd” which is how I found out that I’m a freak of nature who has borderline unbreakable bones. Explains why I struggle to swim in fresh water so much.
I have this exact same anomaly, I learned about it from a dexa scan.
Yeah it’s not too uncommon as I understand just not the norm. Though with me being so short it does give me the joke that evolution is trying to reinvent Neanderthals and I’m it’s Alpha version.
Basically they told me that I was in the top 1% of their data collection efforts And I want to say he said something about it being two standard deviations off normal.
Fair enough, like I said me finding out was just an X-ray tech pointing it out and saying it was kinda cool. So I have no clue where I fall within actual standards.
All that hardware tells us otherwise.
Moopsy!
Just a little sip though in this case.
I hope you got titanium. It’s bio compatible with bone and will fuse together. Took about ten years for me. I was told it’s not important to have a fibula but I think mine probably merged back together since it doesn’t feel like razor blades in my leg.
In one of the initial reposts, someone commented there was a complete fracture and the separated part was absorbed naturally over time.
Might have been bs, as it’s known to happen.
Most likely actual source: fibular free flap reconstruction.
https://myoms.org/what-we-do/oral-head-and-neck-pathology/fibula-free-flap-reconstruction/
Tl;Dr the fibula doesn’t hold weight, it’s just there to provide a connection point for tissue and ligaments, so when you need a long, straight length of bone that isn’t doing anything important they just cut out a section of fibula. Plus if you get really really lucky (or are a child) it might even grow back.
This made me chuckle
To someone who is knowledgeable about this: how important is a fibula to the actual strucural integrity of the body?
As I understand it, it is primarily used to point the foot.
Thats ridiculous, i do that easily with my finger!
You must be a legend among The Ministry of Silly Walks ☝🏼
Well it’s the attachment point for the muscles that do that and other balance related movements.
Skeleton harvester at work
I was very confused the first time I saw this lol. I don’t remember the exact reasoning, but it’s very common for certain lower leg injuries
