Is Dead Denny finally gone from ‘Grey's’?

Ghost of a chance: Dead Denny got angrier and angrier at Izzie as she tried to convince him to go away and leave her alone. Gradually, it emerged that Denny had unfinished business with her, and that “I’m here for you” didn’t mean “I am here and I love you,” so much as it meant “I have come to fetch you and deliver you to the Graveyard Of TV Characters Played By Aspiring Movie Actors.” Izzie isn’t dead yet, but she finally realized what many of us have known for weeks, which is that only a severe medical problem would cause a previously sane woman to suddenly start believing she is having sex with the dead. (You didn’t think he was a real ghost, did you?)

Talk about private practice: There’s no nice way to put it — while enjoying some illicit closet sex with Lexie, Mark "McSteamy" Sloan suffered a “penile fracture.” Cue lots of stupid slapstick while the interns speculated wildly about who “broke” Sloan. Just before Lexie was about to be busted (er, but not the same way Sloan was), Sadie jumped on the grenade by “confessing” that she was the one responsible for his injury, thanks to her “twist and shout” move. There really aren’t enough quotation marks to handle this storyline.

Crime and punishment: You’ll recall that when we last saw Eric Stoltz as Dunn, the death-row serial killer who was ready to give his life (and liver) a few days early to save Bailey’s young patient, Meredith had given him advice on how to induce his own brain death. He ended up with just a very severe injury, which Meredith tried to avoid calling McDreamy in to treat, lest he prevent the patient from dying. (It appears that the injuries he caused to his own head raised no suspicions.) Naturally, Derek found out and was furious, and Dunn backpedaled anyway. He was taken to surgery, where Bailey, wrung out from watching her patient fail, told Derek to let Dunn die so they could get the organs. Derek, fortunately, called upon his limitless reserve of obnoxious sanctimony and shamed her into backing down. So Dunn was saved, and Meredith did him the favor of witnessing his eventual execution. So … happy ending?

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Penile fracture

Penile fracture is a real (albeit rare) injury, a "rupture of the corpus cavernosum that occurs when the penis is erect." In May 2007, for example, the Journal of Medical Case Reports presented a case of a 37-year-old man who suffered complete urethral disruption from blunt trauma sustained during sexual intercourse:
A 37 year old man presented with a sudden cracking sound and acute pain during sexual intercourse followed by rapid detumescence, penile swelling and discoloration. Pain was aggravated by trying to urinate, but he could not pass the urine. Six hours after the penile trauma the patient was admitted to the emergency department.

Physical examination revealed a swollen, ecchymotic penis, blood on the urethral meatus and palpably full bladder. A retrograde urethrogram showed complete disruption at the proximal third of the urethra. The patient underwent immediate surgical exploration and repair of the fracture.
That same article presented an overview of the typical occurrences and treatment of such injuries:
Penile fracture is a relatively rare condition caused by a blunt trauma to the erected penis. The most frequent reported mechanism of trauma is

unphysiological bending of the erect penis during sexual intercourse or masturbation.

Vigorous sexual intercourse is the main cause of penile fracture in the Western world. Because of high energy trauma urethral rupture is associated in up to 38% of penile fractures. The majority of cases in the Eastern world are results of patients snapping and kneading of their penis during erection to achieve detumescence. Due to a low energy trauma the urethra is rarely involved. Usually urethral rupture is partial, rarely complete.

Early conservative treatment with cold applications, pressure dressings, catheterization, anti-inflammatory drugs, antibiotics and erection suppressing drugs is now replaced with immediate surgical repair. Since the repair reduces the complication of fracture it is now the gold standard for treatment of penile fractures.
However, the x-ray image shown above that supposedly illustrates a case of penile fracture is a fabrication (reportedly made using modeling clay and a chicken bone). Although the male of many species of mammal does have a baculum (a bony rod within the penis also known as a "penis bone" or "penile bone"), that structure is not found in human beings. The interior of a human penis is mostly sponge-like and contains no solid, bone-like structure that could snap in half as pictured above.

The x-ray illustration shown here also includes other subtle bits of humor, such as the image of a bolt fastener (commonly called a "nut") inside the scrotal sac (where one would find the testes, commonly referred to in slang terminology as "nuts").

visit actual post and x-ray

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