While aware of the complexities, the physician's charge is to provide the best possible care for every patient without judging the ethical underpinnings of the patient's situation or choices. Physicians should be selected on the basis of their desire and ability to provide top-quality healthcare to athletes and for no other reason. In providing this care, we need not endorse the level of risk that some sports entail. This might even require leaving the venue and making public the fact that only lip service is being paid to the quality of care. After all, risks are needed to effect change.
Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves.
All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people. The McGraw-Hill Companies.