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I was 14 and had been hit by a car. I had a bad, compound fracture of the tibia but sat in the emergency room for hours while they located my parents. When they finally did (and they signed off on surgery), a doctor said "We need to hurry because if the bone is infected we'll have to amputate."

Heather Hill@rollin-academic.bsky.social

A question from Reddit that I'll answer here: "What's the most unhinged thing a doctor has said to you with a straight face?"

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