Clay Buchholz Likely Out For The Rest Of Regular Season With Stress Fracture

But I think they recently mis-diagnosed a horse as being a chicken, though. I’m sure it’s a tougher job than I realize, but they seem to be pretty abysmally bad at it. Either that or they’re fudging diagnoses in line with what the club wants – which I’d find much more troubling.

I also agree with “Rouge” below, that keeping this moderately under wraps probably helped at the trade deadline.

And the fact that Bucholz went for the second and third opinions so quickly shows you that he didn’t really trust them to get it right either.

These medical staffs have entire MRI and X ray machines at their disposal for use on a few dozen people. Its mind boggling that the true diagnosis could take almost 2 months on a professional athlete. How can they not be scanning him from every possible angle? Stop assuming every injury is just a small sprain only to be surprised later. They need to start thinking worst case scenario and work backwards.

If they were intentionally hiding it for trade purposes that’s one thing but even that sounds more like how fans think than actual front offices.

seeing minor fractures in x-rays is about the equivalent of watching a 3-d movie without the glasses.

I had an issue a couple years ago the doctor was very quick to diagnose as an anxiety disorder because that’s what the symptoms best represented, turns out I had liver issues, it took a couple months to figure that out and only after blood tests, heart tests, and a couple sonographs. The doctor told me later that a liver problem was maybe the 5th most likely diagnosis behind anxiety issues considering the initial symptoms.

The point is, short of cutting you open there is only so much they can do, especially since we aren’t really that aware of our bodies, if a doctor asked me what hurts I would have to say ‘my shoulder’ but ‘my shoulder’ is a ton of different components, each or none of which could have actual problems that may not be seen by any remote device. Buchholz said ‘I feel fine’ after his last pitching session and they said ‘too bad we still have something to try’ and they found the problem. I’m calling this a win for the medical staff. As far as other injuries on the team, I’d imagine they take risks, this isn’t a retirement home and we’re trying to make them as comfortable as possible for the end, we’re fixing 20 and 30 year olds (mostly) to get them back on the field patched up as quickly as possible.

This isn’t limited to just the Red Sox, we don’t follow the medical staffs of other teams but set backs occur league wide, players are misdiagnosed or their treatment isn’t right. How many diagnoses has Phil Hughes had this year? How long was Pujols supposed to stay out? When is ARod coming back? Why was Denard Span only put on the 7 day DL when he still isn’t back?

Modern medicine I feel is still largely trial and error.

he said Boston was his favorite city to play in when asked in some sort of questionnaire thing when with Baltimore. But he also said he didn’t want to play for a big market team.