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Chiefs OL soon to be an M.D.

DanMetroMan : 2/19/2018 12:28 pm

Pretty amazing.

"It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Duvernay-Tardif is mastering another field of work. The 27-year-old says he is planning to become the first football player to step onto an NFL field as a physician next season.

“I want to put Duvernay-Tardif M.D. on my jersey,” he said. “I’ve already started a conversation with the league office and they say that anything is possible.”

But before he takes his medical exam in May, Duvernay-Tardif decided to dip a toe into journalism. He pitched the idea to Radio-Canada to work as a reporter, combining his medical knowledge with athletic experience to tell stories about what athletes endure at the Olympics."
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old man : 2/19/2018 12:47 pm : link

My kind of guy!!
Pursuing all his interests, being all he can be.
Such a welcome story from those of jocks that rode the jock train right off the tracks into poverty, drugs, despair, death.
Sadly, that later part may be Eli Apples direction; hope not.

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AcidTest : 2/19/2018 1:01 pm : link

really impressive.

Definitely not in it Â

spike : 2/19/2018 1:52 pm : link

For the money.

Where does he find the time?

difficult for sure Â

snickers : 2/19/2018 1:59 pm : link

I went to McGill medical school as well and know how much time is devoted to the study side of all of this and can appreciate all he has done. The feat is impressive given the demands on their time and the vast amount of study that it takes. I never played a sport while in med school but can not fathom how all of this could be done without a large degree of stress. My hats off to him. We need more athletes of his ilk in the NFL.

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HoustonGiant : 2/19/2018 2:47 pm : link

In comment 13836204 snickers said:

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I went to med school in the US. I grew up on the border. I can tell you that Canadian med school is much more rigorous!!! He is impressive!

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jacob12 : 2/19/2018 5:10 pm : link

We have friends who live in Canada.They come to the U.S. when they have surgery.They think our hospitals and doctors are far superior to Canada's.

Virtually all of the medical breakthroughs are by white male American doctors.

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section125 : 2/19/2018 5:17 pm : link

In comment 13836190 spike said:

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For the money.

Where does he find the time?

Some people are just really, really smart. This guy is brilliant and a superior athlete. Impressive.

Isn't there an NFL player working on a PhD from MIT? Â

njm : 2/19/2018 5:34 pm : link

Forgot the name. Both are very impressive individuals.

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Mike in Prescott : 2/19/2018 6:35 pm : link

This guy. Really. Just makes me feel so racially and nationalistically content.

In comment 13836378 jacob12 said:

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Virtually all of the medical breakthroughs are by white male American doctors.

I went to med school at U Penn and residency in orthopedics Â

rmc3981 : 2/19/2018 6:59 pm : link

at Vanderbilt. While McGill is considered by many to be an excellent school in all respects, to say that it is much more rigorous than American schools is truly absurd. In addition, I have had, over the years, literally hundreds of patients that come from Canada for their orthopedic surgery here in the United States. As an aside, up until 2000 there were more MRI units in New York City then there were in all of Canada. As for the NFL player, truly an incredible accomplishment but putting "MD" on his jersey IMHO is for self aggrandizement and is not the reason why you become an MD.