Is there a doctor in the house? Yes, and he's a pro football player
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, an offensive lineman for the Kansas City Chiefs, lay writhing on the grass and clutching his left knee. It was a "Monday Night Football" game here at Arrowhead Stadium in 2017, and the 320-pound right guard needed a doctor.
Fortunately, one was close by. Before the medical team could hurry onto the field, Duvernay-Tardif turned his foot this way and that, wincing as he applied pressure to his knee area. The diagnosis: He didn't have a torn anterior cruciate ligament but a sprained medial collateral ligament, a more benign injury.
"Of course, I was biased, because nobody wants to tear his ACL," Duvernay-Tardif said. "But I was right; it was an MCL sprain."
The man knows his medicine. Duvernay-Tardif is the NFL's only active player who doubles as a physician. The 28-year-old Montreal native graduated from the prestigious McGill University Faculty of Medicine in May 2018 with a doctorate in medicine and master's in surgery.
In a small-world coincidence, that's the same school
