Ever lost something really important?

Not actually that rare to see. Reabsorption of bone is fairly common place in non unionized fractures that don't end up getting good blood flow. Osteoclasts will breakdown the bone fragments that don't unionize, especially if the bone isn't really responsible for weight bearing.

The only thing thats fake about this is a group of doctors being mystified by any of it.

Reabsorption of bone is fairly common place in non unionized fractures that don’t end up getting good blood flow. Osteoclasts will breakdown the bone fragments that don’t unionize
This is why it's so important to talk to your coworkers and get organized, if those bones were unionized this never would've happened.
- Bernie your bones, bro.
The only thing thats fake about this is a group of doctors being mystified by any of it.
Sounds more like a teaching opportunity, which was interpreted as an 'ah, they have no idea what is going on' moment.
- Maybe? But again, reabsorption is so commonplace that it's not particularly a significant teaching opportunity. I
  f we're assuming that what this person claimed is true, the only real educational thing about this is how important it is to stick to the prescribed follow up care. This more than likely would have been caught during follow up imaging post reconstruction.
My granma had a spinal disc missing entirely. It was just gone. Must've broken it at some point and didn't realize. She was mostly bedridden and moved very slowly with a walker, needed a lot of support. May she rest in peace (death unrelated to missing disc)
Could also be bone eating bacteria.
- Or bone eating surgeons
- Prob not, osteomyelitis is pretty nasty and would have been cause for revisional intervention. The limb would have been visibly swollen and the post op wounds prob would have been weeping a bunch of nasty pus.
- Another new fear now. Yay.
- Or the moopsy.
Does this bone not assist with weight bearing?
- it assist only a little
- Not really during normal ambulation, it mainly aids in stability and in certain range of motions in the ankle. Even less so in post traumatic reconstructions like in this particular image.
Maybe it was a teaching hospital like on the tv show scrubs?
- Nah, I practice at a teaching hospital. Knowing about reabsorption is stuff you learn when you learn about osteoclasts in med school. If you make it to a residency without knowing about osteoclasts, something horrible has happened.
- First of all, there's not a lot of orthopedic surgery going on in rural medicine. Secondly, one of my first jobs as a provider involved traveling to provide specialty care to rural clinics and native reservations in one of the poorer states in the union.
  You are correct that rural medicine is on the struggle bus, especially in states like mine that refused to expand Medicaid coverage.....but your observation just doesn't really apply to this particular case.

God dang aliens takin our bones I tell you what

I tell you what is always read as hwat.
- Unless it's Boomhauer saying it. Then it's "Itelyawat"

Looks like the person must have lost it in accident that required installing the rod.

Moopsy!

They could have financed at least two more seasons of lower decks, if they just released an official moopsy plushie
- There is actually a licensed moopsy plush https://www.masterreplicas.com/en-us/collections/star-trek/products/star-trek-lower-desks-moopsy-plush-10inch

Did they take it out when they put the pins in or maybe accidentally? I guess it could be infection. Crazy.

Btw, couldn't doctors just use git for your medicinal record? Every change is logged and attributed and all.

nooo, that would be too easy. instead we should put tens of millions of taxpayers dollars into a closed source solution that hospitals have to pay thousands of dollars per month to use. (and it has like 12 critical vulnurabilities and the company refuses to fix them)
- Only 12? Wow, so advanced.
Git blame whoever put in those screws

Orthopods stuck the tibial nail in and probably decided that the fibula didn’t need to be fixed because it doesn’t do much so they didn’t bother. The bone then healed as a malunion.

Organ harvesters? .... Does your hospital engage in organ harvesting schemes of any kind?

Screws are not supposed to stick out of the bone either right?

You would think, I have a similar intramedullary rod in my leg, and my screws also stick out. Since the screws are there to hold the rod down the inside of the bone in place, they care more about that stability than the screws being a bit long.
I've been told that now that I'm healed, if the hardware is giving me problems, I can have them go in and remove it. Unfortunately, being in the US, that would probably be another 15-20 grand to have done (basically as much as I paid to have it put in when my leg was broken). So at least for now, even though I do have some hardware-related pain, it's not bad enough for me to justify the cost.
- Unfortunately, being in the US, that would probably be another 15-20 grand to have done
  Fucking hell. I told my doctors that the titanium in my arm was interfering with my rock climbing and weight lifting and they took it out. I think I paid some token fee.
  In Europe, obviously
I’m wondering if it ai generated. The text at the top doesn’t look normal
Edit: wow we’re literally at the point of downvoting people for wondering something?
- If I remember right this screenshot has been around for a while
- Always have been. But don't worry: this is Lemmy, where the points don't matter.
- Looks just like my X-rays.
I had a similar thing done and just looked at my pics of my xrays (was too poor at the time to get copies). None of mine stick out except maybe the head of one of the screws a little.
- It sucks that they charge for copies. I'm in the USA and when I hurt my foot and got X-rays they just made me wait while they burned a CD.

Fibula does very little. While orthopods love drilling bones it probably isn’t worth fixing that part of the fibula and wasting thousands of dollars in expensive plates.