But Arling got a kind of brain injury that's usually more insidious - a subdural hematoma.Ī subdural hematoma is different from the typical blast injuries that affected hundreds of thousands of U.S. But he didn't even get a cut, so he forgot about it.Įverybody knows you can get hurt if you fall off a ladder, or slip and bash your head on the ice. Then, just as they were wheeling him into the operating room, Arling remembered: The day he stood up in the attic and threw out his back, he had forgotten he was under the eaves, and had knocked the top of his head against a wood beam. "And I said, 'I haven't fallen,' " Arling says. Weeks went by, and his back was still hurting him. He took painkillers and went back to work. "But it was more intense than I've ever had it before."
"It's a pain I've had before," says Arling, who has battled back problems for years. He then felt a shooting pain in the center of his back. After an hour of searching, he found the files in a box, grabbed the folders and stood up. It was jammed with boxes of Christmas tree ornaments, old clothes and other odds and ends that define decades of family life. Last spring, Arling went looking for some files in his walk-up attic. So it's ironic that the brain injury he failed to diagnose was his own. His peers often vote to put him on those lists of "top doctors," published by glossy magazines. One such doctor is Bryan Arling, an internist in Washington, D.C.
Yet they and even their doctors often don't know it. get potentially serious brain injuries every year, too. Researchers estimate that hundreds of thousands of ordinary people in the U.S. It's not just football players or troops who fought in the wars who suffer from brain injuries.
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