Agraphia Medical Tragicomedy

23Oct/061

Welcome… to the Rock!

How is it that Nicolas Cage easily stabs a giant needle of VX gas antidote directly into his heart... when all we learn about is experienced, trained surgeons giving their patients a pneumothorax from missing the heart and hitting the lung?

I call shenanigans.

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  1. Peas
    October 26th, 2006 - 16:56

    wait zac…..they weren’t trying to hit the heart….they were trying to relieve the air in the chest cavitiy, but they missed the correct pleural space! they needed to get under the parietal pleura but somehow they went too high and missed it…..

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