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Pliers, pins and professionals

crushed hand pins out new dressing + wire 1 Dec 2009

Professionals in all walks of life anticipate problems, set protocol and adapt to change. The professionals at British Petroleum may have anticipated the recent oil leak in the Gulf.  They probably knew that things could go wrong in the world of oil and nature and machines.  In spite of their planning, it’s unlikely the scale of the disaster was predicted. In any event, no protocol was in place and their attitude toward the accident seemed casual. Continue reading

Dressing down

Crushed hand in new dressing + cube 6 Nov 2009

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12 Nov 09

The stitched and pinned fingers were secure. Because I could feel something poking into one of them I went for an early dressing change. No thank you to the invitation to look at the x-rays or my hand. Not yet.  In the plaster room the medic adjusted the worrisome wire, released the index finger and re-bandaged my hand with the first of many dressings. It was a relief to see a whole finger joining a working thumb. Continue reading