re: Greg Brooks Suing LSU

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Literally could be cause and LSU could tear up that contract

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telling a player that if he misses practice time he may lose his spot in the starting lineup?

then literally every person that has ever coached could be fired for cause.

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No but if he is constantly having to sit out of practice because he is passing out and throwing up with blurry vision, they should have probably sent him somewhere to get checked out

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Couldn't his own family tell him to go get checked out? Sue them too

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really doubt Kelly would allow someone to practice if he knew he had problems.

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This day in age with what we know about CTE and head injuries, I seriously doubt they would have pressured him if they remotely thought it was serious. I don't know much about it, I wasn't in the training rooms or medical facilities, so I'm just going on the assumption that the lawyers are doing what lawyers do and sensationalize everything in the media to force a quick settlement.

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Consider the source. LSBoosie is really, really dumb.

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I'm not a doctor, and have no clue have fast brain tumors can progress, or how repeated forcible contact to the head can affect brain tumors. Can you enlighten me on medulloblastoma so I can not be so dumb?

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Medulloblastoma is likely to grow quickly and can spread to other areas of the brain and spinal cord.

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The symptoms can develop gradually over some months or even years if the tumour is slow growing. Or quickly over days or weeks if the tumour is fast growing.

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[embed]blurred vision or slurred speach and then you’re wondering wtf our trainers were doing.[/embed]

Vertigo if I remember correctly. Pretty terrible.

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Couldn't his own family tell him to go get checked out? Sue them too

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Sure, but I'm sure they were trusting the team doctors. If the doctors misdiagnosed him or encouraged him not to get checked out, that could be a problem.

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telling a player that if he misses practice time he may lose his spot in the starting lineup?

then literally every person that has ever coached could be fired for cause.

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Wally Pipp should have sued the Yankees.

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Anecdotal evidence from a local Neuro ICU.. I’d say >90% of these pts come out with permanent disabilities, or a complication post op subsequently yields a neurological derangement.

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Lasting neuro deficit is a large majority the direct result of the trauma, growth/location of tumor, infarct/hemorrhage and not from an inept surgeon. It of course does happen, think Christopher Duntsch.

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I’ve yet to come across a neurosurgeon that wasn’t eager to cut someone’s head open, but obviously can’t speak to the risk/reward in his case.

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I have experienced the direct opposite, but I also work at a major teaching/Trauma center. If it's a non-survivable injury they are not going to bother, if the pt has a slew of comorbidities and is 89, it again will likely not happen. Also with some spinal injuries they will go in to stabilize the vertebrae, such as in a cord transection The surgery itself in not curative, and the neuro deficit if from the injury not the surgery itself but will still require an OR visit.

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Well that's pretty dumb to trust a sports doc for a neurological issue.

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They are MDs. What do players do when they get a concussion? Are they not supposed to trust the team doctors? Just like if you go to your PCP with an issue, youexpect them to refer you to the proper specialist, right?

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But the "delay" didn't change anything regardless

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You know this for a fact?

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I'm not a doctor, and have no clue have fast brain tumors can progress, or how repeated forcible contact to the head can affect brain tumors. Can you enlighten me?

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I can guarantee you the tumor didn’t form in the ~ 40 days between Brooks’ first complaints and his diagnosis.

I can also guarantee you that no trainer, team doctor or even GP is equipped to diagnose a brain tumor based on symptoms that can be attributed to things like dehydration, heat exhaustion, vertigo or any of a dozen other common thing that cause headaches and dizziness.

This kid was dealt a really shitty hand, that being a ticking time bomb that’s likely been there for most of his life. It’s an awful situation, but him reporting symptoms and getting a definitive diagnoses in 40 days is actually pretty remarkable. Most people wait years and have to jump through ridiculous hoops before getting the sand level of treatment.

Apply just a little bit of common sense to the situation and you’d understand how ridiculous you sound.