October

October 5, 2011

Dear NFL Doc Concussion Co-Chairs: Show Us Your Session at Congress of Neurological Surgeons Convention

TO: Richard G. Ellenbogen, M.D. H. Hunt Batjer, M.D. Co-chairs, National Football League Head, Neck and Spine Commitee The Congress of Neurological Surgeons publicized a “Special […]
October 5, 2011

Congress of Neurological Surgeons’ ‘Conflict of Interest Disclosure Policy’

As I’ve been reporting, attendees of the annual meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) gave National Football League commissioner Roger Goodell a standing ovation […]
October 5, 2011

Program Note

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October 5, 2011

Groundhog Day: Tom (Udall), Dick (Blumenthal), and Hank (Waxman) Still Missing in Action on Concussions

See below. And so on and so forth. Further reading: “Federal Centers For Disease Control Goes Into the Concussion Protocol Business,” September 28, https://concussioninc.net/?p=4735. ***** Still […]
October 5, 2011

P.S. to Today’s Beyond Chron Piece — 2011 High School Football Critical Brain Injury No. 9

In the previous post I link to my column today at Beyond Chron. After that story was filed, writer Matt Chaney reported a ninth serious football […]
October 5, 2011

‘Congress of Neurological Surgeons KO’s Own Credibility With Standing Ovation for NFL Commissioner Goodell’ … today at Beyond Chron

As I reported on my blog, the National Football League bragged that commissioner Roger Goodell got a standing ovation for his speech Monday at the convention […]
October 4, 2011

Congress of Neurological Surgeons Gives NFL Commissioner Goodell an Unprofessional Standing Ovation

Yesterday on Twitter, the National Football League’s public relations chief, Brian McCarthy, wrote, “Standing ovation for @nflcommish at Congress of Neurosurgeons re: player safety.” Roger Goodell […]
October 3, 2011

The Adam Ingle Story — Write Your Own Ending

On September 23, at https://concussioninc.net/?p=4684, I linked to the television news report about the near-fatal traumatic brain injury suffered by Adam Ingle, a 17-year-old Kansas high […]
October 3, 2011

Michael Vick: ‘Over My Dead Body’

Michael Vick, at the Philadelphia Eagles’ news conference yesterday after his team lost for the third time in four games: “I heard Steve Young a couple […]
Concussion Inc. - Author Irvin Muchnick