A medical/doctor's perspective on Batman

[mofo]

Hey people
This is sort of directed at all the doctors/med students/chiropractors/whatever on this board

We know Batman/Bruce Wayne has been through a lot of physical torment and pain. His body is covered in scars and he's had multiple broken bones and surgeries and whatnot.
What I would like to know, based on your professional knowledge, is it even possible for someone to go through so much and still be able to walk?

I'm an engineering student, not a doctor, so my view is kinda uninformed, but I would think that if someone actually went thourgh all of that, they would have been permanently bedridden after a couple of years

Your thoughts?

[The Batman]

This (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=dark-knight-shift-why-bat&sc=rss) might help you out. It's from Scientific American.

[The Cool Thatguy]

Probably not, but then, Batman has been exposed to super science medical healing more than a few times. That could handwave away the cumulative damage he should likely be suffering.

[mofo]

Probably not, but then, Batman has been exposed to super science medical healing more than a few times. That could handwave away the cumulative damage he should likely be suffering.

Well, I was looking at what would happen if we actually had a Batman in the real world. So magic and the like would not play into it.

The link somewhat helps, but it was written by a researcher, not a medical professional (at least, thats what my little research says)....

[DonC]

Real world? He'd be dead. Dressing up as a giant bat and jumping off rooftops while fighting various types of criminals would be very fatal very quickly. A mugger would get off a lucky shot and it would be over. That's why real-world rules don't count.

[The Batman]

^^^^

Pretty much.

And really, I'm thinking that all a medical professional would probably be able to tell you is that experiencing the kinds of trauma that Batman experiences on a regular basis is a very bad idea and that, assuming you don't get yourself shot and killed, it's not something you'd be able to keep up for a long time.

[Jorriss]

Yeah, an actual physicians perspective is unnecessary in this instance.

[wordgeist]

at the very least he will be severly injured everytime he fights , by now he would have broken every bone in his body to the very least, and with all the head trauma his mental capacities will be severly diminished, by now he would have to be more like the characters in "ghost in the shell" his entire body made out of cyborg parts and only his "ghost" to remain human or something like that