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Laurent Duvernay-Tardif graduates medical school on Tuesday
Also see: http://www.espn.com/blog/nflnation/p...rom-med-school & https://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...ool/651047002/
There will be a doctor in the house for Chiefs games this season and there will be one on the field when the team’s offense has the ball. Right guard Laurent Duvernay-Tardif is graduating from McGill University’s medical school on Tuesday, ending an eight-year process that he’s completed while also starting 38 games for Kansas City over the last three seasons. Duvernay-Tardif said he plans to do a residency in emergency medicine, but that football remains his main priority while the medical degree is a “really strong Plan B” for the time being. He also thanked Chiefs coach Andy Reid, whose mother also went to medical school at McGill, for giving him the space to pursue both interests simultaneously. “Not all the coaches saw my second career with that same optimism,” Duvernay-Tardif said, via ESPN.com. “Some coaches asked me, ‘How do we really know you want to play football?’ Coach Reid never asked me that question. With him, it’s always been, ‘We know you want to play football because you’re here.’ He trusts me. That’s one thing I respect and admire about him. He told me that he was going to do anything he could to help me succeed. It’s been four years now, and Coach Reid has stood by that plan. Every year when we end the season, we have our exit meeting with coach Reid, and he’s always asking me where I am in school and what the plan is for the offseason.” Duvernay-Tardif has said in the past that he’d like to have “M.D.” on his jersey once he graduated and he posted a picture to social media that showed he’s wearing a suit jacket with “Dr. Duvernay-Tardif” over his No. 76 for graduation day. https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2018/05/29/laurent-duvernay-tardif-graduates-medical-school-on-tuesday/
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05-29-2018, 11:27 AM | #2 |
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Yeah, well, his ass better be at OTAs today.
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05-29-2018, 11:34 AM | #3 |
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That is so awesome! Congrats LDT!!!
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05-29-2018, 11:36 AM | #4 |
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Congrats
But I worry about his devotion to football
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05-29-2018, 11:40 AM | #5 |
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Maybe he should be the new team doctor so we don't have so many injuries!!!!!
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05-29-2018, 11:41 AM | #6 |
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Hopefully he specialized in achilles injuries.
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05-29-2018, 11:43 AM | #8 |
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Well he'll probably never make $42,363,000 in 5 yrs as a doctor. So I think the Chiefs are safe in trusting his devotion to football. Then again, he is Canadian....
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Laughing and crying....
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05-29-2018, 11:49 AM | #10 |
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He's just doing this football thing to pay off his student loan bills.
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05-29-2018, 12:13 PM | #11 |
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Does that oath about "do no harm" apply to Broncos?
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I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow. I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures [that] are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism. I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug. I will not be ashamed to say "I know not," nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient's recovery. I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God. I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person's family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick. I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure. I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm. If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help. —Written in 1964 by Louis Lasagna, Academic Dean of the School of Medicine at Tufts University, and used in many medical schools today.
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I really want to see that M.D. at the end of his name on his jersey. The NFL better allow it, or I'll file a complaint with the AMA.
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Congrats big guy! Lot of extra work and effort to get there while having an NFL career too. Very impressive.
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