Yep. I had a buddy dive head first into a rocky river. Came up doing the funky chicken. We took him to emergency and they x-rayed him and closed the gash in his noggin' with 14 staples. Told us he was perfectly fine and ready to leave. We laughed and got another doctor to x ray him. Now I am now x ray technician and have no medical experience or training....but I could clearly see in the x ray that his top vertebrae was utterly smashed into three separate pieces. How a trained tech could miss that is beyond me. The only time I have ever had positive interactions with competent doctors is with South Africans. Guys who have seen some shit and have real hands on experience, they didn't get their degree from a box of Cracker Jacks.

Brock was right.