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Originally Posted by Flames Fan, Ph.D.
1) Just in general, the money that those players made is irrelevant *if* there was negligence. Also, it's rather evident that most of those 10 players listed didn't make "millions." Gary Leeman and Rick Vaive are the ones I recognize, but the relative obscurity of the other players suggests they didn't cash in millions.
2) Your dismissal seems to rely on the players' negligence in assessing the severity of their own injuries. Otherwise, if a team doctor sees you in the tunnel for 30 seconds then tells you to get back out there and no one from the team follows up, what would you as a medical laymen think? Having just seen a doctor, most people would reasonably think that there isn't much to be alarmed about. Blaming those people for not being aware of medical knowledge that was not available back then is a nonstarter.
Note that this is no different than you going into a doctor's office and the doctor telling you that you can go home... if something later emerges that could have been pointed out by the doctor you visited, are you saying that the onus is on you to have known that *something* must have been wrong despite the doctor not saying anything?
The concussion issue is important to the league and the players. This suit may or may not have merit based on the claims of these specific players. But this is an important issue, and some of the comments in this thread are just horribly ignorant.
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If a player goes out into the hallway to get expert physician care, and that physician misleads them isn't that the individual Drs. problem? Wouldn't that be covered by the Hippocratic oath? I'm genuinely asking.