re: OT Medical Drs - How egregious is misdiagnosising a broken leg as a bruise??

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All the time? Probably not. Extremely rare to see maisonneuve with negative ankle radiographs.

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A true negative ankle film? Sure. But most of them I get aren't truly negative. They have subtle decrease in tib/fib overlap or widening of the medial clear space or both. However, a radiologist from our hospital or an outside facility has "read" them as negative (which is why I said "ankle films negative"). I treated several hundred operative and non operative ankle fxs last year. If you think it is extremely rare to get a referral for an ankle sprain because the ED, UC or PCP only ordered ankle films that a radiologist read as negative...only to find out they have a neck fx...you should go hang out with an orthopod.

That being said, I have no idea what was missed in this case or how. I was simply responding to the dumb that was trying to sneak into this thread. Remember, there was someone in here who said fracture=/=break