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I broke my middle finger at the joint, in a training accident, two days before a hurricane was scheduled to hit my base. I was seen at the base hospital, in the middle of the night. The ER doc splinted my finger, and told me to come back after the hurricane. No, I couldn't get a referral off-base to a hospital that was still open. Those are taxpayer dollars, and we had a hospital on base. That's crazy talk. Ten days later, the base hospital reopened, and I needed surgery to re-break my finger, then put pins in because it had been so long since the initial break. I was in tech school at the time. If I missed more than 8 hours of class within a two-week period, I'd be washed back to another class. So, instead of being sedated for the surgery, I got a local painkiller. That way I wouldn't miss class. The orthopedic doc said I'd never be able to bend my finger again, or use it for much of anything at all. They were wrong, and I demonstrated this by making a fist, then flipping him off on my last day before I left the base. gently caress Air Force medicine.
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