Is there a doctor in the house? Yes, and he's a pro football player

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said. “For him to still be able to go to school and get his [medical] degree and everything like that — how much time you have to put into this facility in order to be as productive as he’s been on the football field. And then to have the offseasons and his spare time and go and be productive in other aspects of life, it really is a tremendous honor for him.”

Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, shown at the McGill Sport Medicine Clinic in Montreal, is quick to emphasize that he’s only beginning as a doctor. “I just loved it,” he said. “I loved waking up when the city was still quiet, going to work, putting on your scrubs, doing your rounds, seeing the patients. And then going down to the O.R. starting at 7.

Chiefs guard Laurent Duvernay-Tardif is aware of the irony of being a doctor in a sport that’s under scrutiny for its brain injuries. “Of course I’m conflicted,” he says.

 

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