Thank you Tim, I think you've covered most of my thoughts eloquently.
Now, what about some of the medical staff, who seem to be acting as Hippocratic Oafs and should be held accountable for their actions and advice. As, has been suggested, the team DS' and managers. Interestingly, the point in the original article about about controlled medical usage to establish the 'parameters' (it's about 4 pages back) would result only in many more deaths until 'benchmarks' were established. It's a complete abrogation of responsibility, especially if the athletes in question lack the capacity to come back from the dead and say 'but I trusted my doctor'. It belies common sense to suggest such a thing.
