Dr. David Fischer

And some of it is a natural selection process physically.

Some of it's the natural selection process for some reason emotionally or psychologically.

But they're just interesting people to be around because you see

It makes you a little more conservative.

It made me a little more conservative as a surgeon often.

I would say that in that you just couldn't explain it.

It was an extraordinary experience.

At the same time, a lot of the techniques and the investigations that were used in these athletes became great benefit to ordinary patients.

I mean, I'm sure that probably some of the rehabilitation aspects of Adrian Pearson, Adrian's recovery, you know, it got you to thinking like, well, Kelly, maybe we could do some of these things a little bit earlier in the recovery of other patients, which we maybe have not done, thinking that it's probably too early to start running a little bit or it's maybe a little bit too early to start doing this.

And so it's forced us to kind of expand our barriers, you know, move them down the road a little bit.

And it's, I mean, even anterior cruciate, even his operation, when I first started doing these things, patients were in the hospital for five days after a ligament reconstruction.

Well, that's not only an out, you know, outpatient now.

I mean, they're up and walking.

It's amazing.

You're starting your recovery 24 hours later.

Yeah.

And the operation hasn't changed that much.

Well, what's changed?

Well, you make a good observation there, Clarence.

You know, we probably all, when we were young, played, you know, divided up teams on skins and shirts.