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i don't know which doctors gets recruited to athletic commissions, but one thing is for sure:Problem being the commission doctors are remarkably untrained in this area, like most doctors. Many commissions just assume a doctor knows something about this when the reality is that - last time I wrote on the subject - not a single medical school requires a physician to take a single course in nutrition or exercise physiology. This is fine if you show up at the ER with a steering wheel in your chest and need a trauma specialist, but there is no regulation or course that ensures physicians are particularly knowledgeable in this area. The requires in most states that I am familiar with (this is only a few) are laughable with respect to being a "sports medicine specialist."
It is really too bad as there are some very interesting sub-specialties that can be studied, but most of your knowledgeable physicians wind up working for professional teams and have little to do with athletic commissions.
one thing all doctors trained in the western world knows, is how to evaluate a dehydrated patient.
it's one of the most common problems in the ER, more than heart attacks and pneumonia.
if there's one thing i trust commission doctors to know, it's being able to evaluate a dehydrated person
no matter if it's an athlete or a 90 year old woman
dehydration is a problem that has been studied by the medical field for hundreds of years, long before fighters started cutting weight.
that being said, in the fight game i understand there are forces who can affect doctors to make decisions that isn't medically preferrable
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