I was recreation director for a large Summer retreat. Our girl’s basketball team was playing another one. One of their girls really twisted her knee.
Their coach was also a Dr. It was so bad that you could see it was out of socket or whatever. I had one of my crew run to the nearest phone and call an ambulance.
The Dr. looked at it but did nothing. The next day I was talking to one of the paramedics. He said she was in so much pain that they gave he morphine on the way.
I guess there was nothing the Dr. could do but it sure seemed like he should have done something.
You didn’t say what kind of physician the coach was.
He could have been a pathologist or an anesthesiologist. They never specialized in anything close to that.
Even if he were an orthopedic specialist, he may have concluded that there was nothing he could do then. (Who carries morphine with them?)
If I suffer a dislocation I sincerely hope nobody tries to touch it until I get to the ER.
Yeah. If she dislocated her patella he could have done something. But it would have opened a potential can of worms for everybody had he done so. The team, the school, everyone. By letting EMS handle it the lawyers have no where to grab hold.