My near-fatal finger splinter

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I gave a doctor the finger and Obamacare paid for it!

I had a life-threatening splinter deep in my right hand’s middle finger; the Digitus Me’dius, to you fans of old Roadrunner cartoons.

I wish I could contend it was a steel splinter from an ax-wielding mishap or a fragment from a bullet I tried to catch between my fingers.

But, no, the wound was wicker in origin.

Yes, the