[Leica] thank you all

[Howard Ritter]

Speaking on the basis of my familiarity with Standard American Medspeak, I suspect that “Section of…” actually is “Inspection of…”. The latter would be standard and appropriate to the situation, while the former would be atypical and not quite sensical.

Best to your wife. My wife, of similar age, broke her shoulder in a freak accident a year ago and had a total shoulder replacement in the form of a reverse ball-and-joint prosthesis. Give me a total hip any day before.a total shoulder. Even the surgeon said so.

—howard

> On Dec21, 2020, at 1053, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us> wrote:
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> 
> 
>> My favorite entry from the surgeon's notes was "Instrument, sponge,
>> and needle counts were correct prior to closure and at the conclusion
>> of the case." Nothing accidentally left inside.
> 
> This morning the surgeon's notes (in their entirety) were
> 
> "Section of the left lower extremity shows surgical dressings over the hip and lateral thigh that are clean and dry.  She has minimal thigh swelling.  Her compartments are soft and compressible.  She is able to actively dorsiflex and plantarflex the ankle and toes.  She has intact sensation in the superficial peroneal, deep peroneal and tibial nerve distribution.  2+ DP and PT pulses are present."
> 
> I thought "section of" meant something else.
> 
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