Don’t Shoot The Messenger: Concern Should Be About Medical Staff, Not Rubin

Anthony Rieber of Newsday spoke to Ike Davis yesterday who said that he does not blame the medical staff for the treatment of a bone bruise in his ankle despite the setback that occurred after the team opted to put the ankle in a boot that restricted circulation in his foot and ankle and prevented healing. “I wasn’t really angry because I didn’t know what was going on. I think that MRIs sometimes are misleading — now that I’ve had 55 of them, I’ve learned a little bit about MRIs. It’s so person-to-person how your bone reacts or how you heal. One guy might heal in two weeks. I took five, six months.” “What I’ve learned from talking to doctors is they didn’t have an idea when it would heal. It wasn’t like a clear-cut ‘He broke his bone.’ It was like, ‘We’ll see.’ Because that’s all they could really do. I knew that it would heal eventually and if I had to get surgery to have a chance to play, I would have to do surgery. I think we made the right decisions, everybody, and t...