Strain

[intheheart]

Title: Strain
Rating: PG
Summary: Michael doesn't break his ankle.
Warnings: medical... erm, not malpractice but ignoring patient? IDK, if someone can come up with a better description I would appreciate it.
Notes: For those of you new to this story, Michael has OI and thus is very used to breaking bones.


"It's not broken," Michael said, when the nurse checked him in, and remarkably, his ankle wasn't broken.


"It's not broken," he said, when the second nurse came by to examine him, and it really wasn't, he knew very well what a broken bone felt like and he knew it was just a sprain.


"It's not broken," he said, when the doctor told him they had to X-ray it, and the doctor rolled his eyes impatiently and sent him for an X-ray anyway.


"It's not broken," he said, while the tech was waiting for the X-ray to develop, and the tech patted his knee and ignored him.


It wasn't broken.


They gave him a brace, told him to ice it, and charged him $180 for the X-ray.


Fucking doctors.