Hillary Clinton broken elbow update

Posted By P.J. Aroon Thursday, June 18, 2009 - 10:57 PM Share

George Washington University Hospital 

The New York Times has more details about Secretary Clinton's unfortunate fall and the state of her fractured elbow, which was treated at George Washington University Hospital (seen above on June 10, the day the shooter and security guard from the Holocaust museum tragedy were brought in). Some excerpts from the Times:

The mishap occurred just before 5 p.m. when Mrs. Clinton was walking from an elevator to her car in the basement of the State Department. She was headed to a meeting with President Obama, accompanied by the administration’s special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard C. Holbrooke.

… Still lying on the ground, she instructed Mr. Holbrooke to go without her … .

“She said, ‘Go to the meeting, that’s an order,’ ” said Mr. Holbrooke, who told Mr. Obama about the accident.

Mrs. Clinton returned to her 7th floor office before deciding to get treatment at George Washington [University Hospital], a few blocks from the State Department. She was at the hospital for several hours. …

Former President Bill Clinton and Chelsea Clinton flew to Washington together on Wednesday evening to be with Mrs. Clinton.

Photo: TIM SLOAN/AFP/Getty Images

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ANNETOO

12:53 AM ET

June 19, 2009

Annetoo

feel better soon Hill!

 

MDREW

8:33 AM ET

June 19, 2009

Best wishes

for a speedy recovery! We need her out there globetrotting for us like we rarely have needed a Sec State before!

 

STACYX

10:39 AM ET

June 20, 2009

Wow. Now that's

Wow. Now that's dedication.

I hope she actually gets some *rest* before she goes back to work.

She deserves some time to relax, recuperate and actually maybe do something like read of book that's not about foreign policy and read something that is not a memorandum written by an adviser about a current hot spot in the world. She needs to take it easy!

 

ANNE

6:18 AM ET

June 21, 2009

Anyone know why a fracture

Anyone know why a fracture would take 2 hours of surgery?

 

JULIACOLLIER

7:36 PM ET

July 16, 2009

I had a similar fractured

I had a similar fractured elbow that took two hours. Not unusual. The elbow is tricky and has to be pieced together so that the joint movement is not impeded and the joints do not abrade. Also, smaller pieces of bone need to be searched for and removed, lest they contribute to arthritis later.

 

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