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Originally Posted by Jay Random
If his shoulder has ‘had an issue’, then he needs the surgery. Surgeons don't cut into healthy tissue for kicks, or even for cash.
As for the timing, I already went into that. If a person needs surgery, the only reason to delay it (other than finances or fear of the knife, which don't apply in this case) is because something else has a higher priority. For pro athletes in team sports, the team is usually that higher priority, so they wait till the off season if they can. Well, in this case the team seems to have made it fairly clear that it doesn't want Kane around; which removes the only reason he had to wait before getting the surgery.
If you say (as Street Pharmacist does) that he is getting the surgery purely to spite the team, then you are saying that the surgery is not medically required at all. But if that were the case, no reputable surgeon would perform it.
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Thats not true at all. No one is saying that the surgery isnt needed
at all and no one is accusing surgeons of cutting into healthy tissue for kicks or money.
What I am saying is that the timing of this is ridiculous and that the 'immediate necessity' of the surgery is dubious at best.
I wholeheartedly agree with your assertion that he may have delayed the surgery for the 'benefit of the team' or whatever and when that benefit expired he chose differently. All well and fine. But I can name 2 other opportunities as outlined by his agent where a professional athlete and his medical team could have resolved this at the expense of no time lost. Most would categorize those opportunities as the responsible decision.
Those options were left untaken and this much more inconvenient option has been suddenly elected. Doesnt make a lot of sense, does it? For something thats lingered and suddenly become immediately critical?
Why today? Hes been playing, and playing well recently, he was late but prepared to play against Vancouver but no, now, all of a sudden after a game off he needs immediate season-ending shoulder surgery.
'Need' is a strong word for something thats been left on the backburner for what seems to be about a year.