eight year old boys

 
are the same the world over. They run and tussle push each other and fall and break things. I saw two of them today — a distal humerus fracture and a radius/ulna fracture. Both got placed in posterior splints and send to the ortho clinic at St Ann’s Bay. Week one, day one. Medicine — it’s the same the world over. Nurses are helpful, colleagues answer questions, moms have lots of concerns about their kids. Oh wait…I haven’t had any moms in California ask (about pink eye and allergic rashes) “could it be Zika?”

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