Portrays sports medicine as ethically compromised when enabling performance enhancement under the guise of recovery
The article emphasizes expert surprise and historical scandal to frame Dr. ElAttrache’s actions as crossing ethical boundaries in sports medicine, suggesting a systemic risk of abuse.
“Ten sports doctors, antidoping experts, sports officials and trauma surgeons interviewed by The Times said that they were surprised to learn of Dr. ElAttrache’s support of McGregor’s application and that they could not recall any example of an athlete receiving an exemption to use a performance-enhancing drug to help recover from a broken bone.”
