re: OT Medical Drs - How egregious is misdiagnosising a broken leg as a bruise??

With what I know (obviously not the full story), the Saints have unjustly publicly shamed the two orthopedists.

I'm curious what imaging Breaux had, but stress injuries or fractures can have negative X-rays and it can be difficult to differentiate between the 2 on MRIs (often the fracture line on the T1 images is hard to see for fibulas because of the image slice thickness). Most of the time, it just takes time to truly determine what's going on. Heck, he probably had a stress injury that converted to a fracture because the Saints were pushing him to get back on the field. If I'm one of these two orthopedists, I'm suing the Saints for defamation.

ETA: Just read Breaux's prior fibular fracture was internally fixated (aka he's got hardware). This makes an MR worthless because of artifact, and the sensitivity for fracture pickup on X-rays is much lower. I'm guessing initial X-rays were normal but follow-up films showed the fracture (like I said, time is the true decider). If this is correct, then no orthopedist would have done anything different than what happened.