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down my arm bothers me. They want to operate on that clavicle with bone chops - here, I'll open my shirt so you can feel that bone slip back and forth. Feel it?" "Yes, here are the two ends of the una?ited clavicle. The position of your shoulder is amazingly good, considering." "Should I let them go in and work on that clavicle?" "The clavicle doesn't do much except at as a ?ain? stretcher to maintain the stability of the shoulder girdle, and the two fractured ends here are long since h?ted. I don't feel any crepit?cs as they

slip over each other when you move, and

you don't seem to have any pain with motion of the arm."

 "No but I have that  nerve pain down my arm

and into the hand.* I have that all the time." "I doubt that the clavicle has anything to do with that, or that an orthopedic surgeon would want to promise that a repair would do away with it. You perform all motions with your hand, hence the three main nerves to the arm are intact. Sensation, also, is undisturbed." "You don't think they should operate?" "Inspector, I am in Internal Medicine and not in Orthopedic Surgery, and your office is certainly warm and hospitable, but it isn't the ideal place for doing a detailed examination. You are putting these questions to me somewhat as if you were consulting an oracle or at least a fortune teller, and I sympathize with you in that. You would be more likely to believe in a judgement given by a doctor whose qualifications you don't know." After the most unsavory of examinations performed on the wharf so to speak, than in the advice of your own physician. Trusting it is an invitation, an invitation to fate to speak though one of the people who have straggled across that reeking? dock