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Wouldn't an Xray be part of the work-up for a child who" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">wukliss doctah dem</a>Wuddn't the propah work involve an xray for a child who presented with head injury?
There was no one with a baseball nearby to slug him in the head...so they should have used some common sense why treat it as such?...More lucky duckies?
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The bullet struck the child's skull straight on. Dr. Louis Cornacchia can say in a word what he would have expected the outcome to be.
"Dead."
The neurosurgeon could only offer another single word to explain why the bullet made only a small indentation.
"God."
His amazement and delight still filled his voice a day after 11-year-old Devante Kelly arrived at Brookdale University Hospital in Brooklyn with a wound to the upper left back of his head.
The youngster had been sitting on the bottom bench in the grandstand at a Starrett City Little League field Sunday afternoon, waiting to join in the team picture of the Spring Creek Mets, when he cried out.
"All of a sudden, he's screaming and his head is bleeding," his mother, Andrea Walters, recalled. "Everybody thought he got hit by a baseball."
A trauma doc at Brookdale was preparing to close the wound when she paused.
"She saw something and said, 'What's this?'" the mother recalled.
The trauma doctor determined that Devante had been shot.
"I asked the doctor could she just hug me," the mother said.
Cornacchia was notified that a youngster had arrived with a gunshot wound to the head. He was prepared for the worst when he checked the CAT scan. He could see what he termed "a substantial caliber bullet," but it had not penetrated the skull and there appeared to be no significant bleeding underneath.
That happy surprise approached a miracle when he examined the wound. The trauma doc had just removed the bullet.
Wouldn't an Xray be part of the work-up for a child who" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">wukliss doctah dem</a>Wuddn't the propah work involve an xray for a child who presented with head injury?
There was no one with a baseball nearby to slug him in the head...so they should have used some common sense why treat it as such?...More lucky duckies?
***************
The bullet struck the child's skull straight on. Dr. Louis Cornacchia can say in a word what he would have expected the outcome to be.
"Dead."
The neurosurgeon could only offer another single word to explain why the bullet made only a small indentation.
"God."
His amazement and delight still filled his voice a day after 11-year-old Devante Kelly arrived at Brookdale University Hospital in Brooklyn with a wound to the upper left back of his head.
The youngster had been sitting on the bottom bench in the grandstand at a Starrett City Little League field Sunday afternoon, waiting to join in the team picture of the Spring Creek Mets, when he cried out.
"All of a sudden, he's screaming and his head is bleeding," his mother, Andrea Walters, recalled. "Everybody thought he got hit by a baseball."
A trauma doc at Brookdale was preparing to close the wound when she paused.
"She saw something and said, 'What's this?'" the mother recalled.
The trauma doctor determined that Devante had been shot.
"I asked the doctor could she just hug me," the mother said.
Cornacchia was notified that a youngster had arrived with a gunshot wound to the head. He was prepared for the worst when he checked the CAT scan. He could see what he termed "a substantial caliber bullet," but it had not penetrated the skull and there appeared to be no significant bleeding underneath.
That happy surprise approached a miracle when he examined the wound. The trauma doc had just removed the bullet.
pan the so called "trauma docktah" dem whey nevah even did a thorough work up...mi juss 'ope di State look innah dis; bout dem a harspital. 
Ah hope dis is it.
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