Um, business major hear. Math is not supposed to be one of our strong points.

Though I really can't hide behind that veil, since I am in all functionality an engineer.

Crap! STooPiD Double standards.

But technically the hip is nothing more than the socket that connects the femur to the pelvis, so if both the femur and pelvis are unstable, then essentially the whole area could be considered broken. Doc's math is korekt. You are wrong. As you treat the PT the same, regardless.

Well, I can see you failed math.

That would be a multiplication problem. Not addition. And it still doesn't equal a hip.

U R rong!!!

Her hip was fine, until they put rods and screws through it.

If he said "trauma to the hip region" he would be somewhat correct. But as it stands. Doc fails.

How the fuck is it multiplication?

When someone falls and breaks their hip, they have a high shaft femur fracture OR a pelvic fracture.

The pain from two broken bones that you have to lay on doesn't ad up.

It multiplies.

The pain from two broken bones that you have to lay on doesn't ad up.

It multiplies.

When someone falls and breaks their hip, they have a high shaft femur fracture OR a pelvic fracture.

The pelvis is a big bone. Not all pelvic fractures are the same are they?

If I land on my ass doing motocross is that a hip fracture?

If it was the hip socket sure, but pelvis isn't always the hip.

That's more than likely your Coccyx. No, Toady, not cocks, it Coccyx aka your tailbone. Not your hip.

Nate, your analogy/metaphore/half-assed-example FAILED.

korekt.

The fentanyl they give you then takes the square root of the pain.

Yes, but it isn't the same thing Doc was trying to argue before.

A mid-shaft femur fracture and a not-hip socket pelvic fracture doesn't equal a hip fracture.

That's more than likely your Coccyx. No, Toady, not cocks, it Coccyx aka your tailbone. Not your hip.

Nate, your analogy/metaphore/half-assed-example FAILED.

Yes, but when you multiply the pain by the lack of pain tolerance of the patient, the square root can still be quite high.

I wasn't talking about your tailbone, I meant the whole pelvis in general.

An unstable femur is no joke. There's a nerve sheath surrounding the bone. Allot of nerves. It's a big bone. Pain tolerance has nothing to do with it. It will be painful regardless of who you are.

The pelvis IS your hips.

Regardless, if your pelvis was fractured, then you had an unstable hip.

Yes, but when you multiply the pain by the lack of pain tolerance of the patient, the square root can still be quite high.

I'm curious what drugs they gave her. Morphine affects two separate sets of receptors, and only one of the sets is really responsible for pain management and euphoria. It's not even a very good sedative as far as that is concerned.

After 15+ years of being married to a prude, I think he probably already knows.

That's more than likely your Coccyx. No, Toady, not cocks, it Coccyx aka your tailbone. Not your hip.

Nate, your analogy/metaphore/half-assed-example FAILED.

By the time I got to the hospital she was already out of surgery so I never saw here when things were askew.

I think they were giving her fentanyl, as well as oxycontin at some point, perhaps different times? I think they were trying morphine to get her off the fentanyl. Does that make sense? Whatever she was on in ICU couldn't be used in the General.