{"id":817,"date":"2011-01-13T00:46:53","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T23:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/?p=817"},"modified":"2011-01-19T03:29:49","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T02:29:49","slug":"bloodgate-decision-on-friday-learning-from-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/2011\/01\/13\/bloodgate-decision-on-friday-learning-from-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloodgate decision on Friday &#8211; learning from the past&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-817 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/2011\/01\/13\/bloodgate-decision-on-friday-learning-from-the-past\/bloodgate\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"115\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2011\/01\/BloodGate.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/2011\/01\/13\/bloodgate-decision-on-friday-learning-from-the-past\/bloodgate-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"115\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2011\/01\/BloodGate1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/2011\/01\/13\/bloodgate-decision-on-friday-learning-from-the-past\/bloodgate-3\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"115\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2011\/01\/BloodGate2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The Royal Society of Medicine (London) hosted a conference on sports medicine, ethics, and law last night (Jan 11, 2011). Before punsters start with the &#8216;I thought that was a contradiction in terms&#8217;, this fascinating meeting brought debate about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> &#8216;Bloodgate&#8217;,<\/li>\n<li> the ethics of taping a &#8216;non-injury&#8217; so as this obvious decoy would draw tackles away from a truly injured (and untaped part)\u00a0 and also,<\/li>\n<li>legal interpretation of common sports medicine behaviours.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Do coaches know that every time they discuss a player&#8217;s injury &#8211; without getting a player&#8217;s approval first, counts as a violation of the code of confidentiality between the player and his or her medical team?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecss.mobi\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=153&amp;Itemid=62\" target=\"_blank\">Professor Mike McNamee from Swansea<\/a>,\u00a0chartered physiotherapist (former England Rugby Union) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/rugbyunion\/club\/8201631\/Harlequins-bloodgate-physio-Steph-Brennan-begins-high-court-appeal-to-save-career.html\" target=\"_blank\">Steph Brennan <\/a>and lawyer\/doctor David Thomson\u00a0shared\u00a0their thoughts\u00a0about various issues.<\/p>\n<p>A timely issue is the treatment of Steph Brennan &#8211;\u00a0our spy at the RSM event\u00a0understands that his blight on the profession was to to provide a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/rugbyunion\/club\/6035088\/Harlequins-Bloodgate-debacle-has-turned-into-a-witch-hunt.html\" target=\"_blank\">fake blood vial <\/a>(as in\u00a0the films\/movies) to a player to permit a convenient exit stage left for that player given that Rugby does not have\u00a0in interchange system.<\/p>\n<p>Brennan\u00a0was <span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>deregistered for life <\/strong><\/span>for this\u00a0&#8211; which to this editor seems a penalty way too steep for the crime. Brennan&#8217;s appeal to higher courts is\u00a0decided this\u00a0Friday.\u00a0He&#8217;s done his time,\u00a0he&#8217;s learned\u00a0his lesson &#8211; let the\u00a0man walk free.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000\">See the related <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/339\/7728\/Editorials.full.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #008000\">BMJ editorial <\/span><\/a>(note that you have to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">scroll down to page 4<\/span> of the 6 page BMJ PDF please)<\/p>\n<p>Please post your comments below &#8211; this is not a black and white case is it?<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal Society of Medicine (London) hosted a conference on sports medicine, ethics, and law last night (Jan 11, 2011). 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