Guest Yancy Street Gang Guests Posted February 3, 2006 Posted February 3, 2006 I'm sure I wasn't the only one surprised to learn that in the 1950's, the Pirates' team physician was a gynecologist. What was especially surprising was that the team (and Frank Thomas) let the gynecologist do surgery on Thomas' hand.What's up with that? The book doesn't really explain how such a situation came about. It sounds like cronyism at its worst. "Hey, my friend Bob is some kind of a doctor! He can be the team physician! What? He's a gynecologist? Yeah, that should be okay." There's got to be more to this story.
Guest Edgy DC Guests Posted February 3, 2006 Posted February 3, 2006 Well, in their defense, and there's not a lot here, specialization wasn't so specialized in the fifties.
Guest ScarletKnight41 Guests Posted February 3, 2006 Posted February 3, 2006 When I was a kid, there was a minor league hockey franchise called the Long Island Ducks who played at the Commack Arena (may it rest in peace). For a very short time my father's partner, a radiologist, was the Ducks' team physician. He felt that many of these guys were too injured to play. Management decided to get a different team physician instead.So yeah, I can imagine a team going with the most malleable doctor available, even if he was far from being the most qualified.
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