A MEMORABLE PATIENT
| Autor: | R G Crawford |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Carving Hand injury Right handed business.industry General surgery World War II General Engineering General Medicine medicine.disease Surgery Officer surgical procedures operative Falling (accident) medicine General Earth and Planetary Sciences medicine.symptom business General Environmental Science |
| Zdroj: | BMJ. 312:905-905 |
| ISSN: | 1468-5833 0959-8138 |
| DOI: | 10.1136/bmj.312.7035.905 |
| Popis: | A few years before the second world war I was acting as a house surgeon. A patient was admitted with a hand injury. He was a manual worker, right handed. He had tried to catch a falling carving knife with his right hand. All the fingers were deeply cut at the base of the fingers. The resident surgical officer told me to cut the fingers off, keeping a good flap of skin so that I could sew and leave the scar away from the metacarpal heads. … |
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