12-24-2016, 01:56 PM
(12-24-2016, 01:49 PM)jfkbengals Wrote: Not over the doctors. No doctor can ethically or legally say he is not able to play because that's what the owner wants him to say. That opens up malpractice and the ability to lose their license to practice medicine.
If MB wants to tell the coaching staff "don't risk him", he has every right and the ability to do so. He cannot, however, make the doctors decline to clear him to play.
I could see if he had a massive concussion and was risking an on-field lobotomy if he got hit again, but I'm not sure a hamstring injury requires ethical intervention from medical professionals. Or maybe it does...what do I know?
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