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.

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.

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.

Does this bone not assist with weight bearing?

Wouldn't the patient miss the support that bone provided?!

Or, when his leg was being put back together they just straight up forgot to put it in during surgery.

oof ouch owie

I tell you what is always read as hwat.

They could have financed at least two more seasons of lower decks, if they just released an official moopsy plushie

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)

Git blame whoever put in those screws

I bet the same thing happened. Good eye.

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.

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.

Or God took it to create another gender. Check mate, evangelicals!