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[-] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 94 points 1 month ago

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 130 points 1 month ago

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 month ago

Bernie your bones, bro.

[-] Aganim@lemmy.world 47 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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 18 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)

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 month ago

Does this bone not assist with weight bearing?

[-] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month 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 8 points 1 month ago

Could also be bone eating bacteria.

[-] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 15 points 1 month ago
[-] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago
[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Alas, my only regret!

[-] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 5 points 1 month ago

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

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[-] flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

Or the moopsy.

[-] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

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

[-] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month 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.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 month ago

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 month ago

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

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[-] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 65 points 1 month ago

My only regret

Is that I have

Boneitis

[-] cypherix93@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

oof ouch owie

[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 59 points 1 month ago

God dang aliens takin our bones I tell you what

[-] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 month ago

I tell you what is always read as hwat.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Unless it's Boomhauer saying it. Then it's "Itelyawat"

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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 month ago

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 7 points 1 month ago

Only 12? Wow, so advanced.

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago

Git blame whoever put in those screws

[-] ApexHunter@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 month ago
[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 month ago

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

[-] janus2@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 month ago
[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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 month ago

I bet the same thing happened. Good eye.

[-] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 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.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

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

[-] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 7 points 1 month ago

Well it's always in the last place you look

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

AI probably stole your fibula to make crappy imitation fibulas!

[-] TomAwsm@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

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

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Man, Woman, Roman?🫨

[-] takeda@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

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

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 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.

[-] ThatGuyNamedZeus@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago

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

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