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Car Accident and a Language Barrier

Clinician Reviews. 2011 May;21(5):
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The radiograph shows an obvious deformity in the distal humerus consistent with an old fracture with chronic malunion. There is no evidence of a superimposed acute fracture.

Once family and interpreters became available, it was elicited that the patient, who is originally from Nepal, did sustain a childhood injury and broke his right arm. No acute intervention was required.