ISSUE 153: Special Section
September is a great time of year for sports fans. Baseball and football are in full swing with basketball just around the corner. This year we also had the Summer Olympics. I wasn’t planning to watch much of the Olympics, but the women’s gymnastics hooked me in and then swimming and track and field. I thought the size and physiques of the athletes were incredible, particularly the water polo guys.
Standing next to, or behind, all those athletes are the orthopedic and sport medicine doctors along with their parents, athletic trainers, rehab specialists, and coaches. In this issue of MD-Update, we’re proud to introduce and write about some of those doctors, many of whom played sports prior to medical school.
I’ve written about it before, but please allow me to repeat a little personal history. I was born in Baltimore and grew up on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, on an island in the Chesapeake Bay. Back in the 1960s and 70s, Baltimore Oriole baseball was the world to me and my family, and Brooks Robinson was king of the hill. Long time Cincinnati Reds fans will sadly remember the 1970 World Series as the ten days when the sports world saw what Oriole fans knew all along, that Brooks Robinson was the greatest third baseman in baseball.
I got to meet Brooks Robinson in person
when the radio station where I worked in Ocean City, Maryland, sponsored a Brooks Robinson Clinic after he had retired from playing. He was kind, gracious, and very generous with his time and energy to the kids who showed up and to the parents who were in awe that their boys were on the same baseball field as Brooks Robinson.
Brooks Robinson passed away on September 26, 2023. There is a tremendous video of Brooks Robinson highlights on YouTube. When I watch it, I get chills and emotions from my childhood. I don’t think I’m alone with how childhood memories of sports moments touch me. Such is the power of sports for those who played them, watched them, cheered for them, and suffered for them. Every one of the orthopedic and sports medicine doctors that I spoke with for this issue said that the gratitude they receive from their injured athlete patients, and from nonathletes, motivated them to do their best, helping people get back in the game, doing what they do, living their lives to the fullest.
Until December, all the best,
Gil Dunn
Editor/Publisher MD-Update
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