Ethics in Sports (and All) Medicine
Why a doctor's ethical position is more important than ever before.
By Bert Mandelbaum, M.D., Contributor |March 5, 2018, at 9:40 a.m.
The Larry Nassar sexual assault case was a life-altering journey of heartbreak for his victims and a scandalous and hugely disappointing blow to the field of sports medicine. And it has illuminated the distressing fact that the moral compass of sports medicine (perhaps all of medicine) is off. After more than 150 young women bravely came forward with their stories of Nassar's sexual assault spanning more than two decades, the result was concurrent convictions and a sentence that will leave this disgraced doctor behind bars for the remainder of his life. But the story isn't over for his victims, nor should it be for the rest of us in the medical community. We have major lessons to learn here, and we have to put in the work to ensure this never happens again to the most vulnerable among us who entrust their doctors to "first do no harm."
https://health.usnews.com/health-care/for-better/articles/2018-03-05/ethics-in-sports-and-all-medicine
