Monday, May 17, 2004
The Same Old Storey
Doug Pappas at his "Business of Baseball" weblog has a piece on sports teams putting out the team's medical contract to bid. As Doug points out, this creates the situation where team medicine is not based on who will provide the best medical care, but which practice group or institution is willing to pay the most for the "prestige" of being a team's official medical care provider.
Regular readers know that I have not been impressed with Mitch Storey, the Mariners team physician. For details, see the following posts:
- IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE? December 17, 2003. How the Mariners bungled the treatment of Carlos Guillen's tuberculosis infection during 2001.
- THE MARINERS PITCHING MEDICINE MESS January 15, 2004. How the Mariners fail to use modern medical approaches to protect the arms of young pitchers.
BTW- when I spell checked this post, the Blogger spell checker suggested I replace "Mariners" with "Mourners". Perhaps that's one of the enhancements Blogger added with their recent update.
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