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This week's column talks about lessons that can be learned about trauma. Mookie Blaylock teaches about blunt trauma from a car wreck and Mike Adams, about penetrating trauma, from a stab wound to the abdomen.

http://mddirect.org/2013/06/03/all-trauma-is-not-the-same/

 

This week's column talks about HGH. Why it works, why it causes problems and why young athletes won't care.
http://mddirect.org/2013/06/10/when-legal-is-not-allowed/

 

Alex Cobb felled by a line drive and shakes it off. Brandon McCarthy, same mechanism, needs surgery for an epidural hematoma. This week's column can't answer the philosophy but can talk the medicine
http://mddirect.org/2013/06/17/the-philosophy-of-hurt/

 

It's been a tough week to be David Chao. First, he resigns as Charger team doc to spend more time with his family. Then we find out that he has been ousted by two hospitals and isn't allowed to operate.

How do you pick your doctor and where can you find background information? Check out this week's column
http://mddirect.org/2013/06/24/who-canyou-trust/

 

This week's column talks about Patrice Bergeron, his rib injury, aggressive treatment and subsequent complication of a collapsed lung.
http://mddirect.org/2013/07/01/athletes-versus-mere-mortals/

Was the Stanley Cup only last week?

Thanks for reading.

 

This week's column talks about health care reform, technology and the cost of medical care
http://mddirect.org/2013/07/09/the-cost-of-health-care/

 

The dangers of dietary supplements may be more than failing a drug test. This week's column talks about oxilofrine and other uppers that can mess up the heart.
http://mddirect.org/2013/07/15/failing-the-dietary-supplement-test/

 

The NCAA,medical association concussion guidelines for return to play and what really matters. This week's column is up with reference links to a host of guidelines.

http://mddirect.org/2013/07/21/concussion-confusion/

 

HGH: the good the bad, the Biogenesis and the Braun. Medical background in this week's column
http://mddirect.org/2013/07/29/hgh-be-like-ryan/

 

Medical lessons in this week's column from Tony Stewart, Dave Parker, Shawn Burr, Jordy Nelson and more.
http://mddirect.org/2013/08/06/learning-medicine-from-sport/

A day late this week. Night shift got in the way. Sorry.

 

The importance of athletic trainers and how it's never just a sprain, no matter what Andy Reid says. Learning from the injuries of Jamaal Charles and Geno Smith in this week's column

http://mddirect.org/2013/08/12/its-just-a-sprain-not/

 

Dustin Keller's knee injury and Barkevious Mingo's lung contusion are related in how doctors think about injuries and worry about complications.

This week's column: http://mddirect.org/2013/08/19/the-knee-bones-connected-to-the-rib-bone/