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We are members of one another. What binds us together is far greater than what separates us... because of our interconnectivity, what happens to the least of us happens to all of us. Whatever you do for the least of us, you do for all of us.

From Bennet Omalu

When I read Mike Webster's file before I began his autopsy, I knew he was more than a 50-year-old heart attack victim. His file and the television reports of the death of the former Pittsburgh Steelers center described a long, steep fall into bizarre behavior. I suspected he suffered from some sort of brain disorder.

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What I did when I identified Mike Webster's thing, I showed it to other doctors. We all agreed that this was something new, but we had to give it a name. This was not dementia pugilistica. Maybe we could have called it dementia footballitica!

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Trust in the great American ingenuity. We can derive more intelligent, more brain-friendly ways we can play football.

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Chronic means long term. Traumatic means associated with trauma. Encephalopathy means a bad brain.

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All the NFL players I have examined pathologically, I have not seen one that did not have changes in their brain system with brain damage.

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Yes, the concept that blunt-force trauma of the head causes brain damage is a generally accepted principle of medicine. That is why I was so appalled by the NFL doctors who were denying my work.

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Actually, I'm for football. But I'm for intelligent football that enhances us rather than football that steals away who we are.

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There is no safe blow to the head, especially for a child.

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I am a spiritual person. I'm a Catholic. I treat my patients, the dead patients, as live patients. I believe there is life after death. And I talk to my patients. I talk to them, not loudly but quietly in my heart when I look at them. Before I do an autopsy, I must have a visual contact with the face.

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