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The accusations center around allegations that the team doctor insisted on giving team members hernia tests each time he examined them. For all you ladies and those who never played high school sports, the hernia test consists of the the doctor placing two fingers underneath a man’s testicles and telling the athlete to turn his head and cough. If you went out for football, basketball or baseball, you were administered one of these tests by the team doctor before the season’s first practice, and likely any time you sustained any sort of injury, if your doctor was cautious.

Given the extreme physical nature of the sport of wrestling, it’s actually very easy to see why a team’s doctor would want to conduct such exams more frequently, and any group of high school and college-aged men would inevitably resort to joking about such an uncomfortable process. One of Jordan’s accusers – who was of course given copious air time by CNN this week – even stated that the doctor administered this test every time a wrestler had to be examined. This is not “sexual abuse,” this is a doctor doing his job. (My emphasis.)

So now all the issues of alleged "sexual abuse" by the conveniently deceased doctor, who can't even defend himself, turn out to be issues of sound medical judgment. Somehow or other it strikes me that a medical professional experienced in sports medicine would be much better able to make the call on when a hernia exam was appropriate than an 18 to 22 year old wrestler who desperately wanted to keep on wrestling even though he might have suffered a debilitating injury he didn't know about.

That doctor also had a major duty to his employer, the university, to make sure enthusiastic wrestlers, who may not have recognized the severity of their own injuries, were not allowed to continue wrestling until they were medically cleared. Otherwise the university could be exposed to major liability claims by young men who were improperly cleared and went on to severely injure themselves. That being the situation, the doctor had every reason to be excessively cautious, especially given how violent the sport is and how serious a hernia can be. Given the macho nature of male college wrestlers and their ribald sense of humor, it's easy to see how many could joke about how "old doc. Jones just queered me again" when they, and everyone around them, knew they were just joking about another medically appropriate hernia exam.