title: Body Trauma: A Writer's Guide to Wounds and Injuries (Howdunit Series)
author:  David W. Page 
description: This reference book has much to offer many. Indispensable for the novelist, with gore-filled chapters and multiple car crashes spewing limbs and guts, Dr. David Page's opus will also be treasured by medical enthusiasts, hypochondriacs, and those who like lively bathroom reading. From trench foot to crunched legs, massive hemothorax to flail chests, <b>Body Trauma</b> is educational, comprehensive, and a jolly good time.
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  ## Nine
  
  
  I'M GOING to scrape the dead skin away now,“ the doctor said, gently probing a
  chest wound with a pointed instrument. ”I really think you should consider
  some pain medication."
  
  
  “No thanks,” Patrick said. He was sitting on his bed, naked, with the doctor,
  two nurses, and the Puerto Rican orderly, Luis, huddled around him.
  
  
  “It's gonna hurt, Patrick,” said the doctor.
  
  
  “I've been through worse. Besides, where would you stick me?” he asked,
  lifting his left arm. It was covered with purple and dark blue bruises where
  the Brazilian doctor had relentlessly poked him during his ordeal. His entire
  body was a rainbow of bruises and scar tissue. “No more drugs,” he said.
  
  
  “Okay. As you wish.”
  
  
  Patrick reclined and gripped the side rails to his bed. The nurses and Luis
  held his ankles as the doctor began scraping the raw, third-degree burns on
  his chest. With surgical scalpels, he pulled the dead skin off the wo