Coach Berated Doc For Protecting KO'd Player

Kevin O’Reilly of the American Medical Association had an extremely troubling report out of Ft. Worth this week from TCU football team physician Dr. Samuel Haraldson. (Dr. on Patterson’s staff? The truth shall get you fired.) Haraldson reported to the AMA that after TCU football player Ed Wesley was literally knocked unconscious and later suffered memory loss during a Sept. 24 game against SMU, the doctor was “insanely” berated by TCU head coach Gary Patterson when Haraldson refused to allow Patterson to put Wesley back in the game. “Then five or six plays later, I literally was verbally accosted by the coach, screaming at me insanely at the top of his lungs that he doesn’t think [Wesley] has a concussion and what right do I have to hold him out.” More from the AMA’s O’Reilly: “Then five or six plays later, I literally was verbally accosted by the coach, screaming at me insanely at the top of his lungs that he...