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- Published on: 20 April 2001
- Published on: 30 March 2001
- Published on: 12 March 2001
- Published on: 20 April 2001Re: The Football Club Doctor SystemShow More
We welcome Dr Boyce's letter as a useful contribution to the debate which our article has generated. Dr Boyce is quite correct to raise the issue of medical litigation. As the American College of Sports Medicine pointed out as long ago as 1991, what it called "the litigation epidemic" had at that time already "begun to engulf sports medicine" in the areas of negligence and malpractice, informed consent, counselling, re-en...
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None declared. - Published on: 30 March 2001The Football Club Doctor SystemDear Editor,Show More
I read with interest the paper by Waddington et al,[1] highlighting the inadequacies of the football club doctor system in Britain. This paper confirms the situation that many people already knew to exist. Advertisements for club doctors are rarely published in medical journals and are normally appointed on a “who you know” basis. It is also particularly disappointing, that in a time when the specialty of...
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None declared. - Published on: 12 March 2001Appointment and qualifications of club doctors and physiotherapistsShow More
Dear Editor
I read with great interest the article by Waddington, Roderick and Naik regarding the appointment and qualifications of club doctors and physiotherapists in English professional football.
Further to the messages put over in the text I feel that from a physiotherapy side, just being chartered is not enough. In my experience many professional clubs are employing chartered physiotherapists, s...
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