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[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, If there has been work done on the bones and sudenly a bit is missing...

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Also, Are those screws supposed to be poking out? Doesn't that damage all the squisy bits?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Orthopaedic surgery is harrowing stuff... Think of 60's panelbeaters on your squishy stuff in amongst the bones

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And the bone/leg just accepts it. We're pretty impressive creatures.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Speak for yourself.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Only for specific metals. A lot of metals are absolutely not biocompatible.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I had to intubate patients as part of my clinical time for paramedic, which meant time in the OR. Some surgeons would let us hang out and watch the surgery. Orthopedic surgery sounded like a cross between a construction site and an automotive shop. Die grinders, saws, and power drills.

Also, apparently knee replacement involves one guy doing MMA submission moves on the patient's leg while another goes at their exposed, hyper-flexed knee joint with a hammer and chisel.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This one time, I got to have my femur cut mostly through with a saw then slowly bent (did you know bones are viscous?) open and filled in with bone spackle then bolted together with a plate at screws, which was unpleasant.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Bone spackle" being the #5 worst part of this comment, at most, is quite a fucking achievement.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks! Now I'm nauseous...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I attended a talk at a conference talking about how we live in a Cyberpunk future.

The speaker pointed out how we take stims (coffee) jack into cyberspace (put in earbuds to listen to music/podcasts/watch videos) have fully digital travel passes, etc. before then diving into some of the crazy surgeries and treatments that can be done now. It was a pretty entertaining take

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yep. I got wood screws sticking out my femur. Hurt like hell for a year or so, had to learn to walk again. Ached every winter for a decade.

No problem now, forget it ever happened. But I stand on my tippy toe like a girl from the remembered pain. Small price!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

I was gonna say, someone's clearly been in there to put that metal in, are we sure they didn't take a souvenir