BlueBearBoots said:
Broke me elbow as a kid and it was so swollen they couldn't set it properly and had to re brake it the week after
First they sent me home and told me the radiologist had finished and because it wasn't a head wound I should come back tomorrow. When I explained how much pain I was in I was told not to be so soft.
I came back in the morning and they x-rayed my arm and missed the shattered elbow. Told me I had a hairline fracture of my arm, I was making a fuss over nothing, and I was to make an appointment for Physio in six weeks. The Physio didn't like what he saw, I had virtually no movement in my arm at all and sent me for another x-ray.
Then I was sent in with another doctor who cheerfully explained that my elbow joint had shattered and the arm should have been operated on and pinned the day after I'd broke it. He could operate now and "make a pretty x-ray picture" but it would be a waste of time.
Luckily my job involved carrying boxes of copier paper by those thin plastic straps, usually two in each hand, so it straightened my arm out, and I got full use of it back.
No thanks to the useless c**ts at Bury General.