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Medical litigation and intense external pressure create a unique and challenging environment for orthopedic surgeons caring for professional athletes.
Discusses the impact of medical litigation and external pressures on orthopedic surgeons caring for professional athletes.
Orthopedic surgeons who operate on professional athletes practice in a unique environment. They must make time-sensitive decisions—often under intense external pressure and scrutiny from athletes, teams, player agents, and commercial stakeholders—while caring for injuries that are sometimes career-ending and are very often career-altering. Despite adherence to evidence-based medicine and accepted standards of care, adverse outcomes and complications can occur.
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D’Hooghe et al. (2026) conducted an editorial in Orthopedic injuries in professional athletes. Medical litigation and intense external pressure create a unique and challenging environment for orthopedic surgeons caring for professional athletes.
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