Blood Clots and the Death of Common Sense
Blood Clots and the Death of Common Sense
by Joseph Varon at Brownstone Institute
A couple of days ago I was on national TV being asked the usual round of questions about an NFL player who'd apparently developed blood clots. How can a young, fit athlete get a pulmonary embolism (PE)? What are the symptoms? Can you fly with a clot? Could it have been picked up earlier?
All perfectly sensible questions, especially for a young athlete, who faces far more scrutiny than an ordinary patient would. Within the hour, the story was all over TV station websites. . Obviously, he's got the country's…
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