A DISSOLVING METAL THAT’S TRANSFORMING BONEREPAIR SURGERY
‘I had been fortified by trauma, the way a bone, once broken, grows back stronger than it had been.’
THE QUOTE ABOVE by Charles Blow, author of Fire Shut Up in My Bones, is him talking about recovering from his troubled adolescence and going on to thrive. If taken literally, though, it could easily be applied to a recent major disruptive breakthrough in biomedical technology that accelerates and improves the healing of serious fractures, with fast-growing children and adolescents being the biggest beneficiaries.
Quotes are too often interpreted as truisms, however, whereas life is actually a bit more complex, whether in psychology or physiology. Difficult fractures or surgically-corrected
