@article{ref1,
title="Helping children hurt themselves: why pediatricians ought to support adolescent  football players in their athletic goals",
journal="Journal of clinical ethics",
year="2020",
author="Tallman, Ruth",
volume="31",
number="4",
pages="326-330",
abstract="Participation in sports such as American football puts youth-athletes at high risk of injury. Helmets cannot protect players from the possibility of traumatic brain injury, and  repeated concussive injuries can lead to chronic traumatic encephalopathy later in  life. In light of such facts, the morally appropriate role of physicians who treat  patient-athletes comes into question. I argue that pediatricians ought to be  committed to a high level of shared decision making, whereby their goal, rather than  being to provide the medically best advice (which, let's be honest, would be to not  play football at all), would be to provide the medically best advice in light of  patients' honestly professed plans and goals. If patient-athletes see their doctor  as an ally, who wants them on the field as much as they want to be there, they will  be more likely to trust their pediatrician to help in the realization of those  goals, even if they report an injury. While this approach could feel like a medical  betrayal, in that the physician could feel complicit in helping a patient to  continue engaging in high-risk behavior, I argue that medical outcomes will be  better than if patient-athletes see physicians as an obstruction to their athletic  goals.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1046-7890",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}