Dear Doctors: I was in a car accident, and an X-ray showed I had two broken ribs. A second X-ray taken a month later showed I also had a cracked rib. Why didn’t that show up the first time?

One man whose body appears to be enjoying the time off is Piastri's, with the Australian posting an image on social media of an X-ray showing he had suffered a fracture in his left rib.

Oscar Piastri makes a triumphant return to Formula 1 after recovering from a broken rib, ready to race at the ... He shared an X-ray of the injury on social media, marking it as his first broken ...

he couldn't even pick himself up off the floor and needed to be helped to the X-ray room. Further imaging at a medical facility found that he had broken the costal cartilage in his sixth rib.

Dear Doctors: I was in a car accident, and an X-ray showed I had two broken ribs. A second X-ray taken a month later showed I also had a cracked rib. Why didn’t that show up the first time?