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A popular animated Web video is circulating among members of my anesthesia department. It depicts a fictional exchange between an orthopedic surgeon and an anesthesiologist. The surgeon wants to book a case for the operating room: “There is a fracture; I need to fix it.”1 The anesthesiologist pushes him for more details, but the surgeon simply repeats his line: “There is a fracture; I need to fix it.” Finally, the surgeon is asked whom the fracture belongs to, and he responds: “The fracture belongs to . . . a femur.” The dialogue eventually reveals that the patient is a 97-year-old woman who . . .
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