What doctors really mean by “fracture”

SUBSCRIBE | SHOP | ARCHIVE Written by Dr. Nick Golinvaux Good morning. I’ll never forget one of the longest nights of my residency. Helicopters were lining up to land all night, unloading the worst orthopedic trauma from across the region — and it was just me, stabilizing and triaging until the team arrived in the morning. One patient came in with a smashed pelvis — the kind of life-threatening injury that forces you to start difficult conversations about recovery right after "Nice to meet...