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I Broke Eight Bones. Here’s How I Avoided Surgery
Sometimes less treatment is good for the patient—and for the finances of the health-care system.
29 Oct 2019, 01:03 PM IST
(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- On the afternoon of Sunday, Oct. 6, I was finishing a 50-mile bicycle ride to Cold Spring, N.Y., when weeds from the roadside got tangled in my wheels. I lost control of the bike and hit the pavement hard, breaking my clavicle, six ribs, and pelvis, and puncturing my right lung. My helmet, which cracked, saved me from a head injury. (X-rays also found cracks in two thoracic vertebrae, which briefly worried...
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