Sure!

"Hey, baby. You lookin' fine. How about we go back to my place and I show you a good time-" *Megaton Punch*

...Voila, nosebleed.

EDIT: And of course it had to be a pagetopper.

edited 1st Apr '14 8:07:29 AM by Pyrite

The end of episode went kind of like this:

Girl: Oh my God, you were a cop? That's so cool!

Randy: Yeah, I...uh...it is...? *nosebleeds*

Girl: Is he okay?

Barney: Yeah, he got a bullet stuck in his sinus.

So what happens if you do get a bullet stuck in your sinus?

Well you're gonna need to take it out at some point. Can't imagine it's comfortable.

Best removed by trained professionals only, of course.

EDIT: So I must be getting old, because I misread and my first thought was that the bullet was lodged in some other cavity.

edited 1st Apr '14 8:35:43 AM by Pyrite

I'd be a bit more worried about how it got there in the first place actually.

Check if you've got any extra holes in your head first

Experimental cancer drug reverses schizophrenia in adolescent mice

Eating seven or more portions of fruit and vegetables a day reduces your risk of death by 42 percent

Self-healing engineered muscle grown in the laboratory

Ross Fisher is a Paediatric Surgeon, Ask Him Anything

Basically an AMA held by a surgeon who operates on babies and children, if that interests anyone. He talks a bit about his becoming as a surgeon and med school experience, as well as his job of course.

I am not certain whether it is still live as of this post, the AMA has been going on for 3 hours now on Reddit and there is no indication that Mr Fisher is done.

Reminder: If you only care about Ross' answer, look for his white-on-blue name tag above comments. Also, you can collapse sub-threads (or conversations) by clicking the minus sign beside the names. Just saying that in case someone isn't familiar with Reddit.

edited 2nd Apr '14 8:43:38 AM by QuestionMarc

Erasing a genetic mutation: Researchers reverse a liver disorder in mice by correcting a mutated gene

Is there a way to tell if you've become lactose intolerant?

I've been having, uh, issues more frequently and I'm not sure what would be causing it. The sites I looked up on it were like "well do you have the issues after you eat dairy", but I can't tell. How long after I eat dairy would the issues be happening?

On the same day. 3-6 hours, from experience. Try to exclude dairy from your diet for a week and see what happens.

Living organ regenerated for first time: Thymus rebuilt in mice

Patients with paraplegia regain voluntary movement after spinal stimulation

Green tea extract boosts your brain power, especially the working memory, new research shows

Say, what kind of physical injury would warrant about 3 months of intensive physical care?

I'm writing a story, and it begins with the main character getting out of hospital after a long intensive physical therapy. He has been a soldier since he was 10 (he's 20), and the latest mission went pear-shaped and he ended up getting shot. A lot. One bullet even managed to hit him in the jaw, almost completely shattering it.

Actually, even assuming that he is a pretty durable (but not to superhuman level) and the medical technology is fairly advanced compared to now, would 3 months be enough to deal with that level of injury?

Depends on where he was hit, with what bullets, the kinds of wounds.

Lots of military grade rounds are just right nasty things. Look at the Russian 5.45x39mm

Tumbles end over end like a football upon entering the body and fragments once it's energy is expended. Causes just horrific wounds.

3 to 5 of those to your torso and you're finished.

So depending on the location of the shots, you could be in hospital for a very long time.

edited 10th Apr '14 1:43:12 PM by LeGarcon

Oh, this guy again? Is he still trying to crack walnuts with his reconstructed jaw? Anyway, need to clarify: by intensive physical care, are you talking about treatment, or are you talking about physiotherapy? The latter doesn't necessarily have to be conducted in an acute care hospital, a rehab facility will do.

Oh man, I just read this in Dr. Cox's voice. That's pretty much exactly what he would say. Nah, not really, he's just content with being able to chew and eat without any pain.

I don't really know the difference. What category would getting bullets out and reconstruct broken bones and joints fall into?

Treatment. Three months is a very long time for that phase, although I've seen a couple of polytrauma patients stick around for that long. The tricky bit is that hospital-acquired infections and complications of immobilisation, e.g. pressure sores, muscle wasting, risk of deep vein thrombosis, can prolong one's hospital stay. I can't tell you what kinds of injuries will specifically require that much treatment, but getting shot up that badly might work.

Physiotherapy is more of the "rehabilitation" phase of recovery - that and occupational therapy. Basically, it's the part of care that involves actually getting patients back on their feet and sufficiently functional. That takes ages.

edited 10th Apr '14 7:26:33 PM by Pyrite

Ah, I see. I think I'm thinking more of physiotherapy. Will three months be sufficient?

While I suppose each case is different, a member of my family was shot in the hip by a .38 revolver in a bar fight and spent the better part of two years doing physical therapy, and he still has a few issues with walking now. Before that he was a pretty fit gym regular.

Three months would be pretty short for the degree of damage it sounds like you're giving this guy. Anecdata: a friend of mine just had shoulder reconstruction surgery. She's looking at 6 months to a year of PT (physical therapy) to get back a decent chunk of her range of motion and strength, and probably will never get back to what she had before the injury.

, Ah, I see.

I actually have a similar question.

So a character gets shot in the upper arm a bit above the elbow with a 9mm. How fucked is their arm?

Pretty badly off, I'd say. Depending on what gets damaged, say goodbye to what movement you had. Beyond the visible scarring.

Laboratory-grown vaginas implanted in patients

Scientists grow cartilage to reconstruct nose

Well. That (the first one) is a rare sentence, all right.

No, I didn't cross my legs, at all. <winces>

Don't get me wrong, that is a great step forward. Still... <shuffles>