Truth Doesn't Have a Side: My Alarming Discovery about the Danger of Contact Sports
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| Rating | : | 4.24 (897 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01MXKBKUR |
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| Number of Pages | : | 291 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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Bennet and his wife have two children and reside in Sacramento, California. Mark Tabb has authored or coauthored more than thirty books, including the number one New York Times bestseller, Mistaken Identity. . His story is told in the major motion picture Concussion, starring Will Smith. Bennet Omalu is a Nigerian-American neuropathologist who discovered and named chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in American football players, other athletes and military veterans. He is the chief medical examiner of San Joaquin County, California, and a clinical professor at the University of California, Davis. About the AuthorDr
His story is told in the major motion picture Concussion, starring Will Smith. Bennet and his wife have two children and reside in Sacramento, California. Mark Tabb has authored or coauthored more than thirty books, including the number one New York Times bestseller, Mistaken Identity. . He is the chief medical exa
Who would have thought that such an unexpected character would play such a role in bringing to life this world-changing data?In Truth Doesn’t Have a Side, discover the truth about CTE: Its causes and symptoms, how we might keep our children safe and guide professional athletes when CTE sets in. Dr. It is fascinating that it would take someone on the outside of American culture to make this amazing discovery, and refuse to let it be kept hidden. It fed his natural curiosity and awakened within a deeper desire to always search for the truth. Webster’s body looked to Omalu like the body of a much older man, and the circumstances of his behavior prior to his death were clouded in mystery. CTE can result in an array of devastating consequences including deterioration in attention, memory loss, social instability, depression, and even suicide. Bennet Omalu. Bennet Omalu a man driven by his love and concern for the welfare of all people, and his professional vow to speak the truth.. Something didn’t add up.It was at this moment, Omalu studying slides of Webster’s brain tissue under a microscope, that the world of contact sports would never be the same: the discovery of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. But his medical studies in forensic patholo