glumshoe:

A broken bone is a fractured bone. They’re the same thing. I guess this isn’t common knowledge because I just had a dozen people roll their eyes at me and tell me I don’t know what I’m talking about because “a fracture isn’t a big deal, it’s just a small crack”. No… if your bone is sticking out of your arm, it’s an angulated fracture. No one believes me and it’s immensely frustrating.

I had a ‘fractured rib’ once and people kept telling me I was being a baby over it cause ‘its not like its broken’.

(I also couldn’t afford actual medical care because the state I got the fracture in only would provide the x-ray to show it was fractured, not any actual help. And then I left the state a week later on a 3 day greyhound trip to Cali and let me tell you, a 3 day trip in a Greyhound is hell with a broken rib. You cant get comfortable to sleep, it hurts to breath…)