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Hermann cites a typical plaintiff with a fractured femur suffered by slipping on an oily factory floor in Chicago. By consulting his four-volume tables, a lawyer figures the going verdict for a fractured femur as $13,500, with 5% more expectable in Chicago, which boosts the claim to $14,175. Unfortunately for the plaintiff, the factory has movies showing that he does not limp, which indicates a 27% cut, to $10,347.75. Since juries like round numbers, he asks for $10,000-and settles...
...steel) in his right hip, was laid out on his right side and anesthetized. Surgeon Wilson made a long incision clear down to the bone, and exposed the left hip joint which had been fused by the arthritic inflammation. He sawed off the top of the thigh bone (femur), ground the remaining end of the bone to the right depth and angle. He reamed out a hemispheric cavity in the pelvic bone, to accommodate the socket part of the metal ball-and-socket joint. Dr. Wilson drove a long shaft (bearing the ball) into the marrow cavity and fitted...
...Approximately the same age and description as Java man (Pithecanthropus erectus) of low brow, apelike jaw and human teeth, whose skullcap and femur were first uncovered by Dutchman Eugene Dubois...
...honors concentrator in Social Relations and a member of the Student Council, Zola suffered numerous contusions and a shattered femur in a car accident in early September...
...Carted off to Luton and Dunstable Hospital, he soon got into an argument about his 74-year-old once-red beard, which the anesthetists wanted snipped. Shaw won by having the offending whiskers plastered to his face. Next day, in his cream-and-green private room, with his fractured femur fastened together by steel pins, Vegetarian Shaw sat up to munch on nuts and fruit, listened with gusto over a portable radio to BBC reports on his progress. When a nurse finished washing him, Shaw grumbled that he wanted a bath certificate: "Otherwise someone will come along tomorrow and want...