Texas... I visitited an ER due to a hand injury (dominant hand.) We took 7 hours and 2 xrays to determine that my wrist was not broken but rather sprained. The Dr. never showed me the xrays but said that the bone wasn't broken and to wear a splint for a few days. He said that if I continued to have pain for a while, I could go and get it checked out again back in NY, where I live. My pain started to lessen but then stuck at a constant level. Whenever I tried to use my hand, it worstened. I finally got someone else to see it in NY and found out that it had obviously been broken (as per xrays) and that it had started to heal up incorrectly. I heard from not one but two different orthopaedic hand specialists that it was quite unfortunate and that they could have set the bone if it was during the first week of my injury. They will now have to operate and likely fuse some bones together in my hand. This now be quite difficult to work and continue in my classes as I use my hands all the time. A family member suggested that I talk to a lawyer. I don't know what to do... I know that it is my fault for getting my hand injured, but I was just so put off by the idea that the more complicated procedures could have been avoided had the initial Dr. taken some time to see the injury, if in fact, it could have even been seen in the original xrays.