Reddit reviews You're Okay, It's Just a Bruise: A Doctor's Sideline Secrets About Pro Football's Most Outrageous Team

Watching this, I'm again reminded about how wrong it is to have the doctors that treat the players employed by the teams.

There need to be independent doctors who will give the players medical advice in the player's own interest, not the team or league's interest.

edit - There's a pretty good book by Rob Huizenga about being a team doctor and some of the conflicts. (The whole James Spader Woods subplot and most doctor scenes on Any Given Sunday were pretty much lifted directly from the book.)

The team doctor ultimately has the team's best interest at heart, not the player's. There are many good books that go into this such as Mark Bowden's Bringing the Heat and You're OK It's Just a Bruise.

Percy is protecting himself in seeking out an independent second opinion.

Yeah I also heard "You're Okay, It's Just a Bruise" is good too.

http://www.amazon.com/Youre-Okay-Its-Just-Bruise/dp/0312136277

Steroids, or lack thereof.

This book details just how prevalent steroids were back in the day.

https://www.amazon.com/Youre-Okay-Its-Just-Bruise/dp/0312136277

I'll have to look for that one. I read You're okay it's just a bruise a long while ago and it was crazy. Author was a team doc for the early 80's Raiders with Lyle Alzado and the rest of the gang. There's some crazy stories in there like how he had to wipe a players ass because he was injured and couldn't.

Was supposed to be a really nice guy. Juiced like crazy although its questionable whether that contributed to his cancer diagnosis.

If you want to read a really good book about Alzado and the Raiders of the early 80's era, read You're ok, it's just a bruise written by one of the team doctors of the Raiders at the time. Medical treatment back then was way more fast and loose than it is now and cost a lot of players their future health.

Not at all. Are you at all familiar with the Oakland ownership? They based a movie off their childish history and immoral business practices, “any given Sunday”.

Or read a book by their team doctor. https://www.amazon.com/Youre-Okay-Its-Just-Bruise/dp/0312136277