David Kaufman

We Need You in the Locker Room: A Neurologist's Journey Behind the Scenes of Major College Football (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

If you are one of the tens of millions of Americans who loves footballand who simultaneously worries if it can be safely playedthen Dr. David Kaufman's book is a must-read.

Like such classics as Paper Lion and A Fan's Notes, We Need You in the Locker Room provides a fascinating, unique, and immensely readable perspective on a game we only think we know. As a neurologist assigned to work with the coaches and players, his time in the locker room and on the sidelines made him an intimate witness to the drama, teamwork, and courage of young athletesand to the toll this violent game exacts on them. A page-turner about a championship season, this book is also a smart, sensitive argument for how football can be preserved.

As a professor at Michigan State University for over twenty years, Dr. Kaufman used to sit in the upper deck of Spartan Stadium with his family to root for his beloved football team. Occasionally, he would wonder what it would be like to be on the sidelines to help injured players. How that fantasy became reality is what this big-time college football narrative is about.

Kaufman's life as a clinician researcher abruptly changed during the early days of the "concussion crisis," when awareness of the short-term and lasting effects of brain injuries suffered by players at all levels of collision sports became a hotly debated issue. At his first game, on September 4, 2010, he helped save the life of an injured student-athlete. Two weeks later, following MSU's overtime victory against Notre Dame, his medical teammates had to do the same to save the life of the team's head coach, Mark Dantonio, after he suffered a heart attack.

During his time with the team, Kaufman learns that football indeed has risks; but that the game's power to unite players and fans, and to bring entire communities together, is a valuable part of American culture that should be allowed to evolve and endure.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Sager Group LLC
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781958861462
• Artikelnr.: 72392726

Autorenporträt

Dr. David Kaufman has served as the on-field neurologist for the Michigan State University football team for over 13 years. He is a tenured professor and is the founding chair of the Department of Neurology and Ophthalmology at Michigan State University. He was recently appointed the Assistant Vice President of Clinical Affairs for the Office of Health Science at MSU. Dr. Kaufman recognizes his greatest accomplishments as meeting and marrying his wife, Laurie Kaufman, M.D., and helping to raise their two children, Matt and Sarah, to become college graduates. This is his first book.