Dr. Joel Aronowitz — Large Leg Hematoma Incision & Drainage with Dr. A
Dr. Joel Aronowitz: “Welcome back to Aronowitz land. I’m Dr. Joel Aronowitz, a board-certified plastic surgeon here in Beverly Hills, California. So today, I’m going to show you a hematoma that I drained in the lower leg on a patient who sustained an accident on the ski slopes. The ski struck his lower leg, causing trauma, and the blood was not immediately recognized, so it just kept bleeding, and as a result, he accumulated a large hematoma in the lower leg that required drainage.
What do you think about that? And in this video, you’ll see me drain that hematoma and also have some interesting discussions with a very interesting man. I hope you enjoy it. So stay tuned. Haji, are you going to enjoy it? Are you going to enjoy it? Huh? Are you? Are you? Yeah.
Okay. Lying on a surgical bed, having yucky stuff taken out of your leg. You have a competition about the going hard. Well, I don’t know that much. I just know enough to be dangerous. But Galen did this. The same thing you’re having Galen did. So. Yeah. What an amazing guy. Yeah. Yeah, it was like,
you know, reading him, it’s like reading somebody’s memoirs from a county hospital. Yeah. Emergency room. Oh, what is that? What are you doing? Getting stuff out? Is it yucky? No, it’s beautiful. You’re laughing. Yeah. Ooh, I see it. I thought you didn’t want to look. I just want to see what.
Lay back. Yuck. Can I have a little saline in here? Sure. Saline in the small one there. All right, let’s rinse this out. Why is it stinking? Well, because you’re feeling it now. Oh, is that it? It was so tense before.
So what’s the, uh, what’s the, uh, oh, okay. Dr. Peter Waller here. Actor, writer, director, musician, and a credit to my whatever. But anyway, this was a wound from a skiing accident in Zermatt. Let me just drop that. Not a big bear, not Mammoth, not one of these white-red American places but Zermatt where there are no cars. Anyway, I did a yard sale wipeout on a slope I shouldn’t have been on.
One ski went into the other. I didn’t even know what I skied the rest of the day. I could not take off my pants. I pulled, took the ski pants off, and there was, this thing was about as big as a baseball with all kinds of blood-stuffed and ugly and black and blue all the way down to the toes, which remained so. I immediately went to an emergency ward in Zurich. They did a radio, a sonograph, and so forth. I did not have any blood clotting, and I didn’t have any problems with the muscle. However, that thing was swelling, and she said at some point it’s got to be lanced.
I went to Venice for 10 days. It was isolated with COVID, and they looked at it there too, and they said it’s got to be lanced, but there was no tissue injury or blood clotting at the same time. Came back here, it was still throbbing, and everyone of worth said you got to call Joel Aronowitz. You got to call Joel Aronowitz. You got to call Joel Aronowitz. I finally called Joel Aronowitz, and it was like trying to get into the three-star Michelin restaurant. They booked out, and I said, look, I got to see this guy now.
I got to see this guy now. Finally called, called, called, called, made a harangue, and he saw me. And what did we do when he lanced it? We talked about Donatello. It turns out you know a lot about Donatello. I learned a lot actually. Well, actually, you know, the largest Donatello exhibition right now is about to open in Florence at the Palazzo Strozzi, one of the biggest palazzos there, designed by Leon Battista Alberti, the subject of my dissertation. And it’s all the Donatello statues known in one place,
along with… Please post a picture of the Donatello statue with this video so that everybody knows what we’re talking about because the Donatello is very distinctive. I’m sure everyone… The Donatello, the infamous Donatello is the one, the Donatello of David, what we call David, with a hat, and he’s a nude boy, maybe. A biblical David. A biblical David. And he’s been gendered by modern methodologies as potentially homoerotic.
I presented a paper that got published that said that is not necessarily the case because… You presented a paper to the experts. To the experts for the Renaissance Society of America in Venice. That’s saying… And I just want to point out that Peter is actually not, in this context, is a historian with a PhD in this field and so you’re not just making this… A guy in a diner.
So I presented this thing, and then it got published, and it was in a story. I said essentially these couple of scholars said if you look at this with a 20th-century or 21st-century aesthetic, it’s going to look camp and it’s going to look homoerotic. It’s going to look like Mardi Gras dressed up to you. But if you look at it in the context of when he sculpted it, which is up on a pedestal high, you could by the same token gender it as over the adolescent masculine macho pose. So there are many different poses that we now take for granted and gender them, which they’re wrong because the 20th century, the 21st century is myopic considering what was going down in the 1400s. So there. Well, I hope you enjoyed that little video of me draining a hematoma. There’s immediate relief from that, of course, because that mass effect is gone. And then also the toxic substances, mostly free radicals that are released as the blood is broken down by the body naturally occurs.
So we’re helping that area of trauma to recover when we drain the hematoma. But not all hematomas, it’s a judgment call based on the size, based on the symptomatology, and the overall condition of the patient. So I hope you enjoyed that. I hope you also enjoyed that little view of Peter Weller. He’s a wonderful man, a good friend, and a very well-educated man who’s had two very successful careers.
And when it’s hard enough for most of us to just have one successful career. So thanks to Peter Weller for participating in that video and educating me about Italian art more later from Aronowitz land.”
Originally published at https://drjoelaronowitzmd.blogspot.com on November 24, 2023.
