A twisted ankle is painful, and recovery takes time. Such injuries are common in primary care and require careful assessment followed by advice for a usually quite slow recovery. Slow at least for the sufferer. My efforts at furniture removal didn't end well but have led me to better understand and empathise with patients suffering a similar unhappy twist.Empathy is helped by personal experience, whereas the remoteness of necessarily brief disaster reports in the media can produce some detachment from the true extent of pain, misery and destruction. The media are reporting on the earthquake in Turkey and the anniversary of war in Ukraine. It is clearly difficult to convey the full extent of the death and destruction from both large-scale natural disasters and man's inhumanity to man. The shock and impact of such events will be felt for much, much longer and far from the epicentre of the war or the earthquakes, through generations of affected families. The immediate work focuses on the effects of physical trauma, but the magnitude of deeper, more lasting trauma is hard to fully appreciate.
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