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Old Sun Nov 05, 2006, 09:44pm
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Originally Posted by Nevadaref
I think this is a fantastic idea! It can only help us in our main task of looking after the safety of the players.

While most of us aren't doctors or EMTs and couldn't do anything for the kid ourselves, if a problem arose, it certainly could help us in identifying a possible situation earlier and getting the player help more rapidly.
I disagree 118%. (And I'm not so sure my main task is to look after the safety of the players btw, but that's a different thread.)

As a ridiculously extreme example - say you know a kid has a heart problem and he goes down during the game. You run around screaming your fool head off "HE'S HAVING A HEART ATTACK! QUICK!! CHECK HIS HEART!!" when in reality he's taken an elbow to the head.

When a player goes down the most I will do is ask if he's OK, or if it's obvious he's not I'll beckon the coach & trainers in to take care of it. Then I move quickly to the other side of the court.
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