Mr. Obvious wrote:
jewbacca wrote:Further, USADA has concluded that in so doing Dr. Brown engaged in serial violations of professional, medical and ethical obligations to his patients, putting them at increased risk of injury to their health and wellbeing and in jeopardy of losing their athletic eligibility.
I wonder how USADA thinks making decisions about professional, medical, and ethical obligations of medical practitioners is within its scope?
I was under the assumption that one of the purposes of anti-doping measures is to protect the health of athletes in addition to the primary mission of protecting fairness of athletic competition. It seems reasonable to me that doping should be partly a public health issue, and if so we can't remove medical practitioners from the discussion.
Doping is using medicine to do something outside medicine's scope of treating disease, clearly medical ethics and athletic ethics are intertwined in this issue.