"The most interesting case I have seen was when I was doing my emergency department rotation during my clerkship. The paramedics brought in a young woman with a piece of rebar impaled through her upper leg. She was the passenger in the backseat of a vehicle traveling on the freeway, and a pedestrian dropped the rebar from an overpass. The rebar hit the pavement and bounced up through the backseat and through the patient's leg. The fire department and paramedics drove the car to the emergency department because they could not remove the rebar or the backseat. Once they arrived at the ED, the fire department had to remove the top of the car so the patient could be extricated from the vehicle. The patient had her leg amputated because the damage was too much to repair."