I explain to parents that most kids under 12 are basically mutants in regards to bone healing...

That gray zone between mentally competent and incompetent is way wider than I would want/expect....

I thought it was not calling every pediatric distal radius a buckle fracture....

Every distal radius study seems to lean towards we did some stuff none of it seemed to matter outcome wise on the DASH. I think the DASH dosent do a good enough job discriminating who is doing well and is happy with their wrist

Once a patient of mine, while under light sedation, thought a nurse was attractive and suggested he could murder someone for her if she needed it...

I think many of us all know of the technically/knowledge wise not so great doc/surgeons out there that have a cult like following of patients that are no better/worse but are loved. Unfortunately despite all the metrics we can access usually I just phone a friend and ask who do you like.

Life is merely a series of casinos trying to turn us all into degenerate gamblers before we die...