📺 Grey's Anatomy made-for-TV case of the month
Here's a good one. I'm going to have to keep it a little vague for patient privacy, but I think you'll enjoy it nonetheless.
Now, I don't know about you, but I never did anything reckless as a teenage boy. But word on the street is that some teenage boys have not yet developed the prefrontal cortex of their brains — you know, the part responsible for risk assessment and decision-making.
So this is where we pick up the story of a young person who came to my office the day after an experiment with dry ice.
We're talking science here.
The kind of science that involves putting dry ice in a water bottle and then filling said bottle with water.
The kind of science that then involves putting that bottle in a large tube to thus shoot off the cap at a 'friend.' You know, for fun.
The kind of science that proceeds to malfunction so you stick your hand down the tube to jostle it with your thumb.
Thus resulting in an explosion, a 7 cm blast wound, and an open thumb fracture with a bone fragment dangling from its most important ligament.
Fortunately, lots of sterile cleaning solution, many stitches, and a single screw later (below), this person will be back in the science lab in no time.
