One of the patients I saw today had spent a week in the neuro ICU, six months of physical therapy, and six months of speech therapy. He had sustained extensive blunt trauma to the base of his skull.

Today, he has a slightly misshapen skull, he has an impressive scar, but he's exceptionally luck to be alive.

How did he sustain these wounds?
He was beaten with a hand-held metal detector or "wand."

The perpetrator wasn't from the TSA--it was a security guard elsewhere. But I found the irony pretty overwhelming.