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Message: [QUOTE="Lockysillegitimatechild, post: 2892201, member: 8814"] You'd hope so but I've seen experienced doctors even miss fractures many times before. The fact the broncos had to get "better" scans indicates this to a degree. Just like plumbers, teachers, welders or shop assistants-doctors make mistakes (I very much doubt this was missed/mistake but it's hard to prove) Surgery is given more promptly to athletes but is often the last option for the general public so there would be 10000's of people walking around with worse shoulders then bird for the rest of their lives, the specialist could argue with this easily as he probably still has full use of his arm-it's just not up to the rigours of nrl (but sharks could argue back that he was playing ok anyway). Also, I'm not sure of the injury but I can guarantee you that there is some evidence that non-surgical management works just as well with that particular injury. Unfortunately, it wouldn't work as quickly and the research wouldn't be on professional rugby league players where the shoulder gets hammered. But if there is no evidence against what he did then once again he'd get away with what he did even if the injury was un-missable [/QUOTE]

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