Considering filing a medical malpractice suit...

[mrplunkey]

I dont think she had surgery.

I gathered that much. With knees, if you get a small cartilage tear, it can sometimes grow over time like a crack in your windshield (much better analogy). What a knee guy will do is scope it and just clip a little chunk out of the tear and it won't migrate any further.

I've never heard of that in an ankle though.

 

[75th]

No idea yet. Im gonna go in and talk to her new doc (whos doing the surgery) next week. Ill see whats up.

 

[chris302001]

I gathered that much. With knees, if you get a small cartilage tear, it can sometimes grow over time like a crack in your windshield (much better analogy). What a knee guy will do is scope it and just clip a little chunk out of the tear and it won't migrate any further.

I've never heard of that in an ankle though.

thanks for the explanation.

 

[mrplunkey]

thanks for the explanation.

Well I know you're studying to be a DO and you guys would probably just manipulate the joint and put some herbal shit on it.

I KID!

I actually really like DO's.

P.S. You're still don't get to take my tonsils out just so you can buy a new sports car. Barry has warned me about guys like you.

 

[ortiz34]

Def sue bro, you'll regret not wanting to. Then he'll continue to practice like a lazy scumbag and someone else will suffer.

 

[75th]

STFU Ortiz.

 

[mrplunkey]

Def sue bro, you'll regret not wanting to. Then he'll continue to practice like a lazy scumbag and someone else will suffer.

Yeah but also remember we don't want every single ankle pain patient to get an MRI. When you start multiplying a $1,800 imaging study across every ankle, you bankrupt health care even faster.

 

[chris302001]

STFU Ortiz.

lol

 

[75th]

Yeah but also remember we don't want every single ankle pain patient to get an MRI. When you start multiplying a $1,800 imaging study across every ankle, you bankrupt health care even faster.

Yeah but I just figured, the doc did an x-ray, saw nothing, decided to treat it like a fracture anyway, my wife told him the pain got worse, and he just said he was out of ideas and to simply take it easy.

Bad bro material.

 

[mrplunkey]

Yeah but I just figured, the doc did an x-ray, saw nothing, decided to treat it like a fracture anyway, my wife told him the pain got worse, and he just said he was out of ideas and to simply take it easy.

Bad bro material.

That one is a tough call too. It's not unusual to bruise a bone or otherwise damage it in almost undetectable ways. While the shafts of the bone are hard (Pick3 in 3... 2... 1...), the ends of bones are more like balls of mush. They can receive blunt trauma and while they feel like a break, don't show up on X-ray. Using a walking boot is pretty standard for someone presenting with ankle pain and a negative X-ray.

Remember too, I don't know shit about your situation. I just have a lot of empathy for doctors because it's a constant struggle over how much testing and treatment to do.

Regardless, I hope she gets better soon.