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The story was an 82 year old guy with a broken neck. He had apparently fallen in his bathroom that morning, cracking his 1st and 2nd vertebrae. I had a vague memory from medical school that this wasn't a good thing--the expression "hangman's fracture" kept bobbing up from the well of facts I do not use --but I had a much more distinct impression that this was not a case for cardiology.
"And Ortho isn't taking him because?" I said wearily.
"Because he's got internal organs, dude."
I sighed. "So w
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― Internal Medicine: A Doctor's Stories
― Internal Medicine: A Doctor's Stories
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