By Henry Buchwald, MD, PhD
On Feb. 1, 2016, I was, for the first time in my life, bucked off a horse. I landed on my right side, broke 11 ribs, four in two places, and sustained a comminuted fracture of the right scapula, in addition to a right hemothorax and a pulmonary contusion. My hemoglobin dropped from 15.6 to 11.6 g/dL, representing the interstitial blood loss.
I was taken to the nearest hospital by ambulance and spent seven hours, in the company of my wife, in the ER. The original