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PostPosted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 3:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
cipher wrote:
The doctor made the decision that it would be more traumatic to go in after the piece of "shrapnel" than it would be to leave it in. This implies the "shrapnel" was no significant threat to the patient's health, well-being, and unlikely to cause future complications. This would be especially true if the "shrapnel" were, say, organic. And it was smooth, and not jagged and likely to cause later trauma. And it was the size of, oh, say a grain of rice....

"Shrapnel" is detritus of an explosion. It is NOT necessarily metal.

It may not even show up on, oh, say an X-ray, ultrasound, or cat scan. The scar would remain, however.


Was the Doctor....Letson??
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