X was taken into the emergency room and the doctor was called. He came immediately and asked what had happened. X told the doctor how he had slipped in the creek. The doctor had an unusual expression on his face somewhere between disbelief and curiosity. He asked for an x-ray right away and told the nurse to start an IV in his hand. A small dose of morphine was given to subside the excruciating pain.
After the x-ray, the doctor returned to X. His expression was now grave. He asked again how X had slipped in the creek. He shook his head back and forth, saying it was very unusual circumstances to break a femur, the strongest bone in the body. He looked at the x-ray again and said that he noticed a dark area around the fracture site. He couldn't explain what it was, but he thought it looked suspicious. The doctor said that he could repair the broken femur immediately, but he thought it would be a good idea to get an MRI before the operation. Because the hospital was not equipped with an MRI machine, X and his family decided to travel south to their hospital in Milwaukee for the MRI and the operation to repair the femur.
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