Pirates' docs misdiagnose broken bone. For over a year.

[DrungoHazewood]

I don't even want to think what this place would be like if Richie Bancells' staff had screwed up this badly (http://www.timesonline.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18739527&BRD=2305&PAG=461&dept_id=478568&rfi=6). For over a year they told prospect Clayton Hamilton that he had a strained oblique. Yea, ummm, it was really a broken rib. That's why all that rehabbing didn't work.

[gallden]

I had a rib that would float away from my vertabrae (sp) it was only attached by a muscle that I tore in high school and I'd have to go and get it popped back in at the chiro. office. Very painful. Cost me my whole senior year of baseball. I can't imagine a broken rib.

[Leitch]

I don't even want to think what this place would be like if Richie Bancells' staff had screwed up this badly (http://www.timesonline.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18739527&BRD=2305&PAG=461&dept_id=478568&rfi=6). For over a year they told prospect Clayton Hamilton that he had a strained oblique. Yea, ummm, it was really a broken rib. That's why all that rehabbing didn't work.

Sweet Jesus. That is ridiculous.

[twoBshorty]

Why doesn't he sue for malpractice? What kind of idiot doctor misses that? And if it'll never heal correctly and he'll have pain for the rest of his life. . .utter incompetence.