That's Dr. Duvernay-Tardif to you: Chiefs lineman graduates from medical school

KC Star ^ | 5/29/18 | Blair Kerkoff

[DoodleDawg]

The NFL has taken a lot of well-deserved flack in the past year but it's nice to recognize that there still are some good guys playing the game.

[Robert DeLong]

Born: February 11, 1991 (age 27 years), Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Canada
Height: 6′ 5″
Nationality: Canadian Education: McGill University (2010–2013)

[Robert357]

Well said. The guy is a role model. The whole dumb jock stereotype doesn’t have to be true, nor does the violent gangster thug football player stereotype.

It is nice to see a smart man using his talents, all his talents to better himself and those around him.

[kosciusko51]

Another offensive lineman with a PhD or MD.

Meanwhile, the “skilled” players are shooting their mouths off and running the league into the crapper.

[centurion316]

I’m guessing that he won’t be practicing in Canuckistan.

[lee martell]

Good for him. He looks Samoan, but who knows these days.

[DoodleDawg]

I’m guessing that he won’t be practicing in Canuckistan.

Probably will. He graduated from McGill and lives in Quebec in the off season.

[Hot Tabasco]

Good for him but he's a Canadian with a degree from a Canadian university.......There's no way I want him for a doctor but that's unlikely since his limited medical education would never allow him to pass the medical board here in the U.S.

Don't get me wrong but the accolades reaped on this guy aren't warranted considering the vast number of NFL players who have actually completed MBA programs and become very successful business men........

Medical school in Canada is generally a 4-year program at most universities. Notable exceptions include McMaster University and the University of Calgary, where programs run for 3 years, without interruption for the summer. McGill University and Université de Montréal in the province of Quebec both offer a five-year program that includes a medical preparatory year to entering CEGEP graduates. While Université Laval in Quebec City offers a four- to five-year program to all entering students (both CEGEP graduates and university-level students), Université de Sherbrooke offers a formal four-year M.D. program to all admitted students.

[FreeReign]

McGill has a football program?

[Vic S]

Probably French. And I bet he won’t take a knee, even though he’s not American.

[BlueStateRightist]

McGill is a legitimate medical school. That said, being a Canadian, this guy is likely a leftist and believes in the socialist healthcare system of his country.

[Hot Tabasco]

McGill is a legitimate medical school.

Sorry but it's not. Maybe according to Canadian standards but not U.S.

To even get into medical school here in the U.S. you need to have a four year degree with all your classes geared towards medicine. THEN, if you're lucky, you might get admitted into medical school somewhere..........

My nephew was class valedictorian at a private school here in S.E. Michigan, went to Williams College, another private school in Massachusetts that only has a %16 acceptance rate, and was in the top 10 of his class. He applied to the University of Michigan Medical school and was turned down due to all the applicants that were either minorities or already had masters degrees.

They told him that they would accept him the following year so during that year off, he went to Europe to play semi-pro hockey. (As a side note, he was recruited by every major Ivy League college, including Harvard, to play hockey for them but he turned them down.)

Following the year of hockey in Europe, U of M accepted him and the rest is history........

Internship, residency and surgery training at the University of Pittsburgh and finally a two year fellowship at Harvard in their Thorasic Surgery program..........

You will never see or get that kind of training in Canada.............NEVER, NEVER, NEVER !!!!!

[Rummyfan]

Congratulations to Dr Duvernay-Tardif. That is quite an accomplishment.

[BenLurkin]

Dude needs to shave. He looks like a terrorist.

[Hot Tabasco]

As a post script, it's these four year doctors such as Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, that has totally F'd up the "free" Canadian health care system..........

You need specialized heart surgery, good luck with that, you're likely to be operated on by a "General Surgeon"..........

You have colon cancer and require a Colorectal Surgeon, good luck with that, you're likely to end up with that General Surgeon again.........

Call him what you may but a four year education does not make this guy a doctor..................

[SoCal Pubbie]

The reason we have American football is because McGill came to Harvard to play rugby in 1874. The rugby rules began to evolve and with the introduction of the series of downs, like of scrimmage, and finally the forward pass in 1906, the gridiron game left its rugby origins behind.

If you didn't know, Canadian football is a variation of the gridiron game, which developed separately from the American version. They didn't legalize the forward pass until 1925, for example. This guy isn't the first Canadian college player to make the NFL.

[Flash Bazbeaux]

He looks like Captain Nemo.

[Crucial]

So after he breaks his opponents bones, he can set them.

[Mears]

“There’s no way I want him for a doctor but that’s unlikely since his limited medical education would never allow him to pass the medical board here in the U.S. “

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Are you kidding?

McGill is an excellent university with a great med school.

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[Hot Tabasco]

McGill is an excellent university with a great med school.

According to who????? You going to trust you or your family's life to a Canadian "doctor" who only spent 5 years in college???

You don't even get into medical school here in the U.S. until you have graduated from college.......And you are lucky if you get accepted.........