Snapshot!

Snapshot!

Got to cut those nails

This patient attended the emergency department after a construction site accident in which a nail gun accidentally discharged into his left index finger.

Could it be that there was some misunderstanding about the meaning of the word "nail" in nail-gun?

Malcolm Thomson
Consultant Paediatricians, Taranaki Base Hospital
New Plymouth, New Zealand

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