Wesley Clark admitted to hospital following verbal missteps

With much broader hips this could have been our former female Governor during and after Katrina!

Now just encase yall care how the general did it, ole Wesley, judging from the x-ray, turned his head to the right (remember xrays are read back wards, before you say anything) and leaning back did a "reverse (or backwards) retro cephalorectal thrust" maneuver. As apposed to the forward leaning maneuver, which is much easier for cephalorectal insertion.
What is interesting in this film is that he some how managed to fix his head in the anterior pelvis, which can be seen by the bowl pattern posterior to the cranium.
And yes, in case you are wondering, he is FOS, which is also seen on the bowl pattern. This no doubt contributed to the anterior displacement of the general's head in the pelvis.
On a side note.... NC... didn't you just piss off your HIPAA security officer at your LTAC?


Also.... good job on the correct DOB.

Clark didn't belittle McCain's service, he just said that service doesn't automatically make him a foreign policy expert or a shoo-in for the Executive. Nothing wrong with that.

But I digress.

Like Bush with Kerry 4 years ago...

I wish people would look at things more objectively.

He's not comparing Kerry to McCain, he is relating the situation to the way that Chicken Hawk, Bush discredited Kerry's military service.

Clark didn't say anything negative about McCain's military service and he even called him a hero.

Good stuff there!

Although; you seem to have picked through and chosen bits and pieces of Clark's speech, leaving out some important stuff.

If you look more closely at Clark's speech, you can see that he wasn't claiming that Kerry's military service was the sole reason he believed Kerry would make a good president.

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I think the real patient in that pick has a fractured pelvis.

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I think it's a normal film.

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Not to disagree with NC (and I am sorry I have been working and did not get back to this faster) but...
In the gray circle you can see there may indeed be a subcapital hip fracture, this could be due to osteoporosis, it appears there is some angulation of the cortex.
The purple circle shows what looks like some joint space narrowing and is most likely arthritis.
But I am not a radiologist and therefore defer to anyone who is...

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I was thinking the same, exact thing but didn't say anything.

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I was thinking the same, exact thing but didn't say anything.



I concur.
I don't like showing up people, but NC is in the medical field and should be getting consults. I expect better from him... freaking NC slacking off again.

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. . . so I was consulting with a politician friend on this matter and he advised me to issue the following statement:

My fellow TigerDroppingians,
It has come to my attention that in the X-ray cited there may indeed be a subcapital hip fracture, this could be due to osteoporosis, it appears there is some angulation of the cortex. It should be noted that this information is entirely consistant with the term "normal film" which should be taken as a referrence to the film itself and not the image on the film.
Sincerely,
NCT
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How'd I do?








Figure 1.

X-ray of the pelvis showing no positive findings.
Ruparelia et al. World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2006 4:95 doi:10.1186/1477-7819-4-95
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