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...patient Bob has a "bone-on-bone" knee - no cartilage at all between his femur (thigh bone) and his tibia (leg bone). Common arthritis looks white on an on X-ray; Bob's X-ray is a snowstorm. He's as bow-legged as a cowboy, the inside of his bones have ground each other down. Although his cartilage is all gone, there's something even more important missing in his case. He has no pain. Bob, 70, actually comes in this time because he has pulled a muscle. When I examine him, I'm careful...
...According to Power Plate's manufacturers, if you stand on the machine's vibrating plates for 10 minutes a day three times a week, you will lose weight, increase bone density and improve your overall health. But is that really possible...
...Bones of Contention Confusion surrounds the subject of osteoporosis. That is especially troubling for women, who face the risk of bone loss decades earlier than...
...paperwork ahead of them. In the X-ray room, the tech, a tiny woman, was alone with my new patient. She was, in fact, single-handedly moving him back off the X-ray table onto his stretcher. The films were up. They showed what you would expect; a shin bone smashed to splinters. The formica top of the X-ray table had trauma debris all over it - bits of asphalt, dirt and, of course, blood, with scraps of that useless white roll paper they put on exam tables. I stabilized the leg while she slid him over. The door opened...
...Even after the emergency operation we did that night, Charles' leg was a punishment itself - pins sticking out, huge open wounds, skin grafts, almost certain to get a bone infection that would take more surgeries and lots of medicine to fix. We had a long talk when I made rounds the next morning. Then he was arraigned and taken away to the county hospital lock-up. They sent me an update: Charles had kept his leg. There was, of course, not the remotest chance I would ever get paid for those six or so hours of work in the middle...