πΊ Grey's Anatomy Made-for-TV Case of the Month πΊ
Ok, here's one of the more bizarre stories I've heard in a while.
A few weeks ago, a patient came in to see me for what she thought was surely a broken finger.
My nurse typically goes in to see the patient before me to get the story and arrange any x-rays that need to be done. Only this time, my nurse said that the patient was really vague about how the finger had been injured.
So I go into the patient's room and ask what had happened.
It turns out that the patient is a large animal vet. Who has a family member who raises Thanksgiving turkeys. All she was doing was trying to feed the turkeys when a THIRTY-TWO-POUND turkey jumped in her feed bucket and wouldn't leave.
The actual words out of her mouth were that she 'got in a fight with a turkey.'
I've seen a lot of injuries over the years, and often forget the murky details of those that overlap. But without a shadow of a doubt, I can guarantee you I've never before heard that phrase uttered in my clinic.
For the patient, the story has a good ending. She ended up tearing an important ligament in her finger, but not all the way through. It healed up nicely in a cast and she's back at it.
As for the turkey, she wouldn't indulge me when I asked if that turkey was going to end up on her Thanksgiving table this fall...
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