It’s England, after all.
They were just going to let her die.
What do you expect from the NHS?
Your “not-so-friendly” government-controlled medical care at work.
Socialized medicine: “DMV healthcare”. “Just take a number, maybe we’ll get to you.”
Reminds me of when Mary Pierce got injured at a tournament in Linz, France in 2006.
Snowflakes.
Try walking 36 miles out of the Chosin Reservoir with a knee shattered by shrapnel like an old NCO of mine did.
Then describe agony.
What a bunch of whiners.
It’s easy to criticize.
The friend says she was waiting for 10 or 15 minutes for help. The officials say the first bit of help arrived in about one minute.
Hmmm......
I dislocated my right knee, leg sticking out ninety degrees to the from where it was supposed to be, age sixteen in wrestling practice when the guy I was practicing against did a single leg take down at the wrong angle. Besides a sound that resembled a thick maple branch snapping (my ligaments and cartilage I presume) I don’t recall feeling much pain till later. The brain has a way of filtering out stuff it knows you can’t deal with immediately. But it was still a “You’ve got to be f***ing kidding me!” moment, so I do empathize with the young lady.
The video doesn’t really show how delayed the medical response may have been. The player goes down. She curls up clutching her knee. We’ve all seen (too many) athletes go down with knee injuries, and this is standard behavior. Then she starts screaming for help. That’s what is odd. She seems to have panicked. I’ve seen football and soccer players at all levels from U16 up to the pros go down with ACL and other knee injuries. They’re invariably stoic about it.
I was at a basketball game where a girl dislocated her knee. It was immediately obvious just to look at it.
As it happened, her coach was a Dr. He looked her over but said she would have to be treated at a hospital.
I was rec director and had a member of my crew phone for an ambulance.
The next day, I was talking to one of the paramedics who transported her. He told me that she was in real pain and they were given permission to give her morphine. I did not even know they used it in the U.S.
The English have a chip missing... This is why we sailed 500 years ago.
England is goin’ downhill at an alarming rate. Even Salami, Baloney, George Calooney don’t want none.
This sort of injury happens multiples of times more for females. Their knees cannot handle sports-level stresses. Just a fact.
G D. Cry baby! Shake it off.
Judges were undoubtedly numbed by Macenroe’s theatric antics.
Looked like she still had one good knee.
Oh, please! It’s a dislocated patella. Paiful, yes. Life threatening ... cut me a break.