OT: There is a fracture; I need to fix it.

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Perspective - NEJM

Mark D. Neuman, M.D.

http://bit.ly/loVgVk

Elequently written, important piece

" rather than saying that he wants to fix the fracture, the fictional

orthopedist says he needs to fix it. It is as if, on some level, a

decision-making process has been passed over, and an inevitable operative

course, however absurd, set in motion not by a patient, but by the fractured

bone itself. "

Karl