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[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

A Duke player swatted a woman's arm away on live TV Saturday. Under NCAA rules, his own head coach isn't allowed to overrule her.

She's an athletic trainer. Back in 2016, the biggest conferences in college football passed a rule giving trainers and team doctors "unchallengeable autonomous authority" over medical decisions for injured players. Coaches can't override their calls, and they can't even be their boss anymore, since the rule pulled medical staff out of the coach's chain of command completely.

Brian Hainline, the NCAA's top doctor at the time, called it the most important piece of legislation in NCAA history. That sounds like a lot for a rule about trainers, until you hear why they needed it.

Trainers were getting steamrolled. Coaches wanted their guys back on the field, and the medical staff didn't always get the final word. Even three years after the rule passed, about a quarter of college athletic trainers told NATA they still didn't feel like they had real medical authority at their own school.

So think about what she's running into. A player is down and not moving. Every trainer is taught to treat that as a possible neck injury until they know otherwise. The 2020 guidelines for spine injuries in football basically come down to keeping that head and neck still, which means one person takes the head and everybody without a job in that circle backs up.

A teammate hovering over the pile is one more body that can bump him or get in the way. And in the third quarter of a rivalry game, with his ears stuck inside a helmet, a hand on the shoulder is honestly the fastest way to tell a guy to move.

Look, he was worried about his teammate. Anybody who's played knows that sick feeling when your guy isn't getting up. The most useful thing he could've done for him right then was take two steps back and let her work.

If Manny Diaz walked out there and shoved her aside on a medical call, Duke would be breaking NCAA rules. Somebody should probably let his cornerback know.

[kiesha @kiesha9i]

"Sleep when the baby sleeps," I say to myself, laying down on the couch with my cat on me for the fifth time today.

[Dr. Glaucomflecken @DGlaucomflecken]

It’s 2075. There is only one hospital in the entire country. It is 8 square miles in the middle of Kansas and owned by United Healthcare. Premiums are $47,000 per month. The only medications left are Ozempic and boner pills. Life expectancy is 38.

Government: “I can’t believe doctors did this to us.”

[big dog you are mother i mean they @finelylesberg]

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[Appodlachia @appodlachia]

It is important that y’all know the world premiere of the Mothman ballet is next month

[Josh @synthsontoast]

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[miya @miyarah_]

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[Clement Lee, MD, MSc @ClementLeeMD]

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[chatpile roan @chatpileroan]

If I lock in now and push myself harder than I ever have before, I could have another autoimmune disorder by christmas

[Mall Bangers @MallBangers]

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[Beth @DanUgglaInUggs]

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[farbood @farbood]

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[rosie ݁˖ ❀ ⋆｡˚ @lionqueenmaddie]

idk if someone has already made this comparison or not but whenever i see this photo of alysa, it always reminds me of the sun from tangled. her skating is so magical i miss her so much

[shrimps💪🍤 @shrimpchipsss]

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[Lisa 🧚🏻‍♀️ @lisa_talking]

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[nat @imniceandsmart]

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[trash jones @jzux]

“god created you in his image” has God heard of body dysmorphia