The smear job

[jacksonianmarch]

I have no disagreement with the statement that the medical team has been a bumbling group the last few years. Free agents and trade acquisitions have come in only to subsequently find out lingering injuries prevent them from playing' date=' or at least playing to the level of expectation. Players are misdiagnosed. Players are rushed back to their detriment from injury. Etc, etc. Something needs to change there, along with all the other areas that need to be addressed.[/quote']

 

Their medical team had tunnel vision. They refused to expand their differential diagnoses when their therapy wasnt working or when symptoms started pointing away from the initial diagnosis. Hell, it was OBVIOUS that Ellsbury broke ribs on his play. It was OBVIOUS that there was a structural abnormality with Buchholz. Those are the two most glaring examples.

[FredLynn]

Their medical team had tunnel vision. They refused to expand their differential diagnoses when their therapy wasnt working or when symptoms started pointing away from the initial diagnosis. Hell' date=' it was OBVIOUS that Ellsbury broke ribs on his play. It was OBVIOUS that there was a structural abnormality with Buchholz. Those are the two most glaring examples.[/quote']

 

It certainly would have been obvious in both those cases if a timely MRI were ordered. Delay in diagnosis is probably the most common reason doctors are sued. Why not sue these bumbling goons who missed fractures and cost the team millions of dollars, perhaps.

[seabeachfred]

Once again Prune Face Henry is dithering while Fenway is burning. The Red Sox medical staff has been a disgrace for the past few seasons. It has been one misdiagnoses after another and in the meantime we lost Youk for two weeks in 2009 when it was just a one day or less bruise, lost Ellsbury for the whole of 2010 when they screwed up his medical chart and this past season it was Bucholz who wasn't given an MRI by these boobs when he first complained about back discomfort. We have a lot on our plates this off season but one thing that can be done quickly if Henry gets his head out of his rear end is to jettison the medical staff and hire one that is competent enough to keep our players on the field next season, and that goes double for the strength and conditioning staff. There should be programs in place to make certain that Red Sox players are in the proper physical shape to enter a season where they will have a lot to atone for, not the least of which is overcoming their sad and sorry reputation as a laughing stock of the league---a title they earned with their choke job last month.