DF is aware that his broken leg is particularly bad.  How?  Easy: the reaction of doctors upon seeing the x-ray.  This is not to say that they simply told DF it's a bad break (though they did that).  Even if they had said nothing about the actual fracture, the tenor of their responses would have given it away. 

These reactions (both doctors DF formally consulted as well as some family members who are also docs) were like those of a 21-year-old fratboy upon seeing a particularly vicious tackle in a football game.  "Ho, snap!  That shit is nasty!  Dayyyyyyyyyyum, boyeee, you did your leg HARD.  Sheeeit!"  All right, the docs did not use the aforementioned hip hop lingo, but they most certainly did freak out with something approaching glee upon seeing the severity of the DF tibial fracture.

So at the risk of stating the obvious, this absolutely sucks and made me want to kick each of the docs in their overeducated, undersocialized ballsax (which of course, I could not; and yes, all these docs were male).  The reason should be pretty clear: when you have suffered a serious injury, the last thing you need is a medical professional hooping it up with a weird mix of fascination and excitement to rub it in.  This is pretty much the dictionary definition of insult to injury.

Why docs lack this very basic social skill is puzzling to me.  Other professions seem to have a basic sense of decorum.  Imagine if an aesthetician took this approach.  ("Oh shit, your bikini zone be HAIRY, girl!  You part ape or some shit?  Dayum, I'm gonna have to charge you for like six wax jobs.")  Or a lawyer.  ("You're in jail?  For real?  Like with criminals and all?  OH MY GOD dude, you're screwed!  I might be able to get you off but this is going to seriously F up your life for real.  PS, watch your cornhole in there.")

I get that many doctors are basically nerds going all the way back, and the grueling process of medical school can't do much to help them in this respect.  But it seems like there should be some course in med school that informs them about the very basic skills that one should have when interacting with patients, which is, you know, what they do for a living and all.