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More than seven years ago, Christian Rose was cycling down his usual route in San Francisco’s Richmond District on his way to a tune-up when the day he had long feared became a reality.
A car was barreling toward the bike lane on Arguello Boulevard. He yelled out, but the car hit him and sent him flying over its hood. His bike crushed and helmet scraped from the gravelly street, he landed on his right hip.
Rose was freshly through his emergency medicine residency at UCSF, and he said he had an immediate and sinking feeling that the hip that took the brunt of the impact was broken…