Charley Rosen: Dr.Tom Winters agrees that Yao is officially a "giant"

i think the other chinese guy called Sun Mingming, who is much taller than Yao has this giant thing. Yao, I think, he got his height from his parents, and the professional basketball traning he received when he was very young.

But I do worry about Yao's possibility to get hurt since he is a huge target at the center on the court. I think Yao will miss 15 to 20 games reguarly per season from now on, just like what Shaq used to do. Now, it's half a season for Shaq.

 

This also reminds me of the warning signs from the surgeon general on the ciggrette pack. That is probably why people continue to smoke despite of the warning. Surgeons care about things operatable but not the preventable. The auther obviously consulted a wrong specialist.

 

what made him effective is that he was too slow to react to fakes.
He used to give Dream some trouble since Dream would do all his fkaes and juke moves and Eaton was so slow he was still in the way when Dream tried to shoot.

not sure exactly what you mean by active....my recollection of him was that he was extremely slow in both speed and reaction time.

still had a decent caree tho.

 

yao's parents are tall, but he's still almost a foot taller than his dad. that's not all genetics although I don't think yao has gigantism. but what do I know.

 

In other news, Earl Boykins has been deemed a dwarf by Rosen because he could find a doctor that says he's short.

After all these years, Rosen is still trying to find something to back up his statements that Yao would be a bust.

 

not trying to be too picky but he is 7 inches taller. I would guess there are a lot of NBA players 7 inches taller than their parents.

 

Yao's dad is closer to 6'10" than 6' 6". So get your fact straight first. I'm 6' tall. My mom is 5' 2" and dad is 5' 6". I guess I have gigantism too (relatively speaking of course )

 

Most occupational/rehab doctors do only a year of internship in medicine before going into rehab medicine. They are not "internists', whom require 3 years of training in internal medicine.

 

Tom Winters, MD, FACPM, FACOEM, Occupational Medicine, Physician

 

[Rosen is an idiot]

Seriously, if Yao truly had gigantism, it would have come out by now. Remember when all the Yao haters accused the Chinese government of making Yao as some sort of genetic experiment? The man has been looked at by a zillion doctors in the west, and though freakishly large, he has been deemed 'normal' over and over again. Like I said, if this weren't the case, we'd effing KNOW about it already!!!!

I can certainly see foot trouble for a man that size, but this most recent injury was just a freak accident.

[/Rosen is an idiot]

 

He might be a MD, but most if not all occupational doctors are not SURGEON.

 

he is the chief. the director....he might not be a surgeon. but to say that Occupational Medicine has nothing to do with Orthopedics makes me wonder why "occupational medicince" is listed in the orthopedic department of New England Baptist Hospital. When you go to OT, your usually going cause who shattered a knee of shoulder etc etc.

I dont think Tom Winters is the bad guy here. I think Rosen stretched his words to right his typical anti-yao editorial. Does Dr. Tom Winters MD, director of Occupational Medicine within New England Baptist Hospital's Orthopedic Department have the right to talk about bones? i think so. But I think Charlie baited his friend's responses, cherry-picked them out of context and stretched it into a story. Rosen. meh.

 

OK, let me try again to clarify your confusion on this. Occupational therapist = allied health, not an MD. Tom Waters = internal medicine doctor specializes in occupational medicine; he is neither a surgeon nor an endocrinologist, He is also not an occupational therapist. Occupational medicine is not usually associated with orthopedics.

 

What floors me is how many people jump all over Rosen for these comments when, in fact, Rosen stated that he was not qualified to make an opinion and rather consulted an orthopedic doctor for the opinion. It was the doctor's opinion - not Rosen's.

 

You tryin' to take tha fun outta this, Doctor??

 

He probably consulted many doctors before finally finding one that said something he wanted to quote.

 

Would you care to show us where on NEBH's website Tom Winters is listed as a director? For what it's worth, how often do we see an MD is titled as a "director" if the program he directs has only one faculty member, i.e., himself -- the odd man out, aka the *chief*?

Furthermore, occupational medicine is one of those programs which by itself can't be categorized as a department due to scarce demand, so it has to be put into a department where it deems to be most appropriate. If, for instance, in a town known for mass-manufacturing products whose precursors are not very kind to lungs and etc, a doctor specialized in occupational medicine may well work for the respiratory care department in that town's only hospital, rather than for his orthopedic colleagues.

There is little doubt Rosen is the *chief* villain here. But the advice or "expert opinion" Tom Winters gave to his hoop friend hardly absolves him from the guilt of unprofessionalism, to say the least.

 

Didn't they perform tests on Yao to see if he was genetically tall or it was his ptiutary gland?

 

Never said occupational medicine has nothing to do with orthopedic, of course they do. They help patients to recuperate from physical injuries and those suffered from strokes to regain their physical abilities. By the way that (strokes) has nothing to do with orthopedics. I am telling you a common knowledge in medical field that occupational/rehab doctors are not surgeons, not even internists as a previous poster has suggested. Most of them never saw or dealt with patients with acromegaly. As a matter of facts, most orthopedics probably never come across a single patient with acromegaly. An endocrinologist, an internist with expertise in the "hormonal" system of the body, probably know more about acromegaly than most orthopedics.

 

Let me clarify this. Because both deal with the same medical conditions, in this case mostly physical injuries, in many institutions they do work closely hand in hand, especially the well-known ones, and could even be under the same departmental head.