This past week was rather interesting and it had a lot going on.

In fact, we could summarize the entire week by looking at the ICD-10

and the diagnosis code S-993XA. You might be wondering how is an ICD code going to diagnose our entire week?

Well that code specifies an unspecified injury of the face and initial encounter.

And the theme of the rest of the week quite well falls within this famous quote too.

But I say to you, do not resist the one who is evil.

But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.

Yes, that's right. I'm talking about the slap her around the world during the Oscars.

It would seem that the altercation that transpired between Chris Rock

and Will Smith has taken over every news outlet in the United States, as well it's all over

social media with the memes that could rock a comedy show.

Now I'm not here to discuss these details, nor am I here to talk about politics, Jeda,

and whomever, but rather the slap itself

and what that means from a medical standpoint.

Middle-ear injury or injury to an adjacent inner-ear structures

occurs in actually one-third of patients with severe head trauma and

over one half of patients with

temporal bone basilar skull fractures. But you might be thinking that's not

what happened to Chris Rock. But middle ear injuries can also occur from

direct blunt trauma to the external

auditory canal such as a hand blow to the ear or a boxing glove falling upon

the ear or motor vehicle injuries and even sports injuries like wrestling or penetrating trauma like

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