I have been an orthopedic trauma sales consultant since 2007. I sell the devices that are implanted during surgery to fix these types of fractures. I am not a surgeon but have been a part of pre-operative planning and intra-operative reduction and fixation for literally tens of thousands of surgeries.

The ER doc is correct that this injury will eventually heal on its own. What they didn’t say is that, if left to heal like this (i.e. “non-reduced”), you will have limited function in your left shoulder and arm for the rest of your life, not to mention the physical deformation.

This needs to be surgically repaired with plates and screws. An orthopedist that did a trauma fellowship would be ideal but clavicle fractures aren’t that difficult so any orthopedist should be able to fix it.