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What Batman's Medical Case History Would Look Like

Explore the fascinating case of Bruce Wayne's injuries and the risks of mixed martial arts club participation. What did the doctor find?

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Ouch.

When you watch Batman plummet 20 stories and somehow drag himself upright, you know there's going to be a doozy of a doctor's visit later. And what, the curious fan might wonder, would the doctor say in the face of the massive, persistent injuries of billionaire industrialist Bruce Wayne? If some GPs want to test for weird genetic diseases just on the strength of mouth dryness and occasional fatigue, who knows what they'd say to frostbite in August or bizarre allergic reactions to plants. Or rather, now we know, thanks to a physician's case history of Patient BW

over at Ordinary Gentlemen:

By far the greatest contributor to patient’s ongoing morbidity are his multiple and seemingly ceaseless musculoskeletal injuries...Patient explained most of these (and most subsequent) injuries as being the result of membership in a private and apparently quite intense mixed martial arts club. Patient has denied being the ...

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