3 tips for avoiding your local Foot Doctor

1. If you break something glass, put shoes on before you clean up the glass to avoid two large chunks of the glass penetrating so deep in your foot you have to go the OR to have them removed.

2. Before going to bed, make sure there are no sewing needles in your sheets. This will insure that you will not have to go the OR to have the needle removed from your foot.

3. If you are walking in tall weeds with a gun in it's holster, make sure the safety is on to avoid shooting your own foot. This will also make sure you can avoid a trip to the OR.

Justin had to take care of patients this week with all of the above injuries. He had to stay late last night to perform surgery on the gunshot victim. That was after going in early to do surgery on someone who drove an hour just to see Dr Johnson and seeing patients all afternoon in the clinic. He is staying plenty busy which is good because it keeps him out of trouble!

This is the x-ray of the gunshot foot before surgery. The white spots are all bullet fragments.

Justin had to put an external fixator on this foot to stabilize the shattered bone. So the poor guy has a bunch of pins sticking out of his foot now and faces more surgery. I think it would have been much easier to make sure the safety was on instead!