LinnaeaBorealis
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Joined: 10/5/2008 From: Insanity & beyond Status: offline
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I think that it's a sad thing, but it's fairly normal for even very good trauma hospitals to overlook things, or rather I mean the employees of such hospitals. After I was run over by the car, I went back to work in the same trauma hospital where I was cared for & was helping move some furniture when my best friend told me to stop before I hurt myself. I laughed & said, "I broke my knee, not my back!!" She said, "Ummmm, actually you did fracture your neck." So I ordered up my old chart & sure enough, there was the picture the Ortho doc had drawn of the fracture of the transverse process at c-5. And over a year later, another Dr explained that I couldn't possibly have fractured my pelvis in the front without fracturing my sacrum in the back. So thank God for patients who question & get involved in their own care. It's the only way.
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Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in ~~L. Cohen Just one of the yahoo's
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