Memory Commitment

Drawing helps me to commit stuff (i.e. gastric blood supply) into memory. When I was in my first year during medical school I drew a lot in Anatomy class. Now, at a time where a lot of apps make it easy to study, visualize and memorize medical stuff, I still find myself drawing - the old school way.

3 days ago, we admitted a patient who fell from the second floor of a building. Amazingly enough, after thorough examination and work-up, his injuries were only broken bones on his left forefoot.

This is the antero-posterior and oblique x-ray views of his left forefoot showing fractures of the 2nd , 3rd and 4th  distal metatarsals, plus a dislocation of the 5th metatarsophalangeal (MTP) joint. Ouch.

This is the x-ray after I did close reduction of the MTP dislocation at the ED.