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Message: [QUOTE="Fairfield Fan, post: 3133723, member: 6911"] Actually, there are two versions that are important: the team physician's report to the athlete, and that athlete's opinion garnered from a second physician's opinion. As the Washington Post article points out, the athletes and their parents were outraged when, time after time, they learned the truth about serious injuries only after consulting a second non-team physician. So the scandal here is that the team doctor was colluding with the coaching staff to hide the true extent of their injuries from the athletes in order to get them to play while badly injured, and subjecting themselves to further serious injury. That sounds to me potentially criminal, or at least open to major civil lawsuits. Universities are not supposed to withhold the truth about their injuries from student-athletes. Yet that, as documented by The Post, is exactly what UNC did. And as to "hurt versus injured," that is a false distinction. If you are hurting, you've been injured. Pain is your body telling you that it's suffered an injury. One might be sore, but it sounds as though this distinction without a difference is meant to keep badly injured kids playing, no matter the risk to them. [/QUOTE]