Superhero-Related Injuries in Paediatrics

there was actually a study on this? Did we have to pay for it??? THEY’RE KIDS. I hung upside down from a hanging flower pot in my backyard which proceeded to come unhooked while I was in said position. I WAS A KID. It is part of the learning curve and in some more unfortunate situations, part of Darwin’s studies. It is the parent’s who are all fools, not because their kid got hurt (they’re kids, it happens), but because they want to blame something else… Super Heroes, Bart Simpson, Sports, whatever. My daughter was in the ER at a year and a half old with a busted arm. The diagnosis? SHE’S A KID!

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For me the preliminary diagnosis was *always* abuse. Every time I went to the ER with a busted limb (6 or 7 casts by the time I was 15), the nurses/doctors always made it a point to ask me specifically what happened. As I got older I finally realized why they did this and debated how much fun I should have with it.

5 broken fingers and stitches in my head 4 times (two times within three days when I was two years old)