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Re: WHAT DO YOU DO FOR LIVING?

Wed, 12 November 2003 06:19

Caledwvech wrote on Wed, 12 November 2003 15:17

gt, while you know more about the medical profession than I do, your knowledge is clearly extremely limited when it comes to knowing about real life situations. Dude, the facts are pretty clear. His ACL got snapped in half (confirmed by one of the leading specialist in that field who I would say knows more than you believe it or not). Now you tell me if it's his fault that he knee keeps getting dislocated in the intervening months when there is nothing there to stop it.... Dude you need to get a life. Go out and see some real life cases and then maybe you will learn the meaning of compassion. Better yet, go watch "Patch Adams". You remind me so much of the bastards who were the doctors in that movie.

To your question.....

The facts are quite clear. The cause of the recurrent dislocations is a snapped ACL. Simple. I saw the bloody xrays dude. I saw how friggen careful he was in regards to what he was doing. If you call walking up some steps normally dodgy (he dislocated doing just that), then so be it. I dont know why you would, but then again, it wouldnt surprise me if you did. There is NO ROOM for discussion in this aspect. These ARE FACTS. I am sure you have heard of them. It means that they are true, and your idiotic assuptions are just that, assuptions made out of ignorance of this particular case.

You clearly missed the point. Of course his knee instability is due to ACL insufficiency (you don't need to be a doctor to pick it), but when did it happen? Who supposedly misdiagnosed it, if at all? If there is no case for misdiagnosis (which, based on the facts as presented, there isn't), then why would anyone even suggest legal proceedings?

I respect orthopedic surgeons' opinions when it comes to things orthopedic - that's what they do. You would do well to take a leaf out of this book.

It's interesting you perceive me to be a bastard because I come out fighting to protect the reputation of my profession after numerous ill informed derogatory remarks were made by relative cretins. Suprisingly, medicolegal debate doesn't really bring out the compassionate side of me.

Cruciate ligament rupture cannot be picked on an Xray unless there is a complete dislocation of the knee, (and then only surmised) or if there is an associated fracture. Diagnosis is made on examination, MRI and/or arthroscopy. Being a ligamentous structure containing little/no calcium, it is not radio-opaque and cannot be visualised on Xray. You must be very good at interpreting Xrays or full of shit. I am comfortable it is the latter.

[Updated on: Wed, 12 November 2003 06:24]

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