As I no longer eat dinner with the nuclear family and have the question put to me by my parents “so, how was school today? What did you learn?” I thought it might be a fun experiment to post something to that effect on this blog. Today was a learning-filled day, here are a few:
1.) Blummensaat’s line: A radiographic landmark of the knee at 30 degrees flexion, a line drawn at the distal femur’s cortical line that should extend out inferior to the inferior border of the patella. If the line intersects the patella (and the insall-salvati ratio is less than 1.0) you suspect patella baja, and thus a quadriceps muscle rupture.
2.) Anyone who tells a hospital-admitted marine recruit (who has never gone through MC training himself) anything to the effect of “Do you want a straw? Suck it up!” is a complete tool. TOOL. Just because you’re a pudgy navy officer doesn’t mean you should be a jackass to an injured recruit. Please, I saw you almost die at the end of a 1.5 mile run….
3.) Knowing I can easily find parking within 1 block of a downtown bar with my motorcycle has greatly improved my outlook on socializing downtown. MUCH less anxiety about the anticipation of frustration with parking and circling and fighting over pavement and scoping and tailing people down the street and shelling out $20 because of a Padres game and etc.
