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June 26, 2009The Cleveland Cavaliers can do no wrong
June 26, 2009In yet another twist to the mysterious staph infection cases that affected the Browns last season, veteran wide receiver Joe Jurevicius is suing the team and the Cleveland Clinic for negligence. While Denny may think the Clinic is absolutely amazing at everything, the Lake Catholic High product tends to disagree and wants to bring it to the court system (the 23-page description of the lawsuit is already up on the PD). Is this something that will scare anyone and everyone away from Cleveland in the future? I really have no idea why a multi-millionaire like Jurevicius would feel the need to sue a professional sports team, but the acts of the team must have been rather egregious to force a guy characterized as being the perfect veteran to do such a thing.
“Jurevicius sues Browns over staph” [AP Article/ESPN.com]
“Former Cleveland Browns receiver Joe Jurevicius sues team, doctors, Cleveland Clinic over staph infection” [Mary Kay Cabot/Plain Dealer]
16 Comments
Wow..just wow…good one Cleveland…
Maybe Joe is bitter.
If it’s the Clevealnd Clinic, why aren’t the Inidans and Cavs having problems?
You would think in a professional environment equipment would be properly cleaned.
The Cleveland Clinic replaces faces son! UNTOUCHABLE!!!
Joe’s not doing this because he’s “bitter”, although the multiple bouts of staph infections DID shorten his career. Joe’s a good guy. I’m sure it pains him to take such lengths against his hometown team and hospital. Maybe he’s doing this to help prevent this from happening to future patients or athletes?
I ain’t mad at him. The amount of staph over the last few years is ridiculous.
The Clinic did an absolutely fabulous job fixing up my Mom. Everything from treatment, to followup care, to even the billing process was handled smoothly and efficiently. Infection is a tricky thing to deal with, and its going to take some really smooth talking by his lawyer to prove negligence on the hospital’s part.
As for the Browns? It wouldn’t surprise me if the stadium urinal water fed directly into the whirl pool in the team locker room. Remember when they had the huge watermain break inside a stadium that was less than 10 years old? Yea…
I remember reading about the fact that there were 4 other teams with the same or somewhere near the same amount of staph infections, yet no one made a fuss about them all that much…not to mention Tom Brady had one as well…
I think this is a combination of bitterness and just being upset that hes not playing anymore…if this was so rampant in the everyday world, how come you never hear about it from anyone other than the Browns…considering they typically work out together and such, its more likely its a facility type thing, or just occupational thing rather than a cleveland clinic problem…
by default, football players get cut a LOT more than any other athletes, and thats how staph spreads…open wounds…when other players have cuts and such, its not as much of a contact sport…so it doesnt happen as often…when football players have surgery, they tend to want to get back to work and show their teammates they want to come back asap…they should stay away as much as possible..but they dont…
staph is all around you all the time…its not necessarily a hospital only problem…this is a fruitless action by Joey J…and I loved the dude when he played…but this just seems to be a reach…
just my opinion…im not a doctor…but i DID stay at a holiday inn express last night…
@5: I agree completely. That the browns couldnt protect their multimillion dollar investments is almost laughable. Personally, I think this suit was long overdue.
@7: While staph is around you all the time, the circumstances surrounding the Browns and staph demonstrates the situation is something more than a coincidence. I think the suit has a lot going for it.
I wouldn’t be surprised if LeCharles is the next one in court.
You serious #4? You know him?
ben –
read. it is FAR from a Cleveland problem…only thing is this knucklehead doesnt seem to understand it…
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1205364,00.html
Staph, of course, is far from just an NFL problem. Two college teams, the ’05 Florida Gators and the ’03 USC Trojans, had multiple cases. And football is by no means the only sports victim. The infection kept Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Alex Rios out of the 2006 All-Star Game. A few days later another Toronto player caught it, and the clubhouse was disinfected. NBA players Paul Pierce, Grant Hill and Drew Gooden have had it. Staph killed a high school wrestler in California this summer, and last spring 15 students at a Pennsylvania high school were either treated for staph or symptoms caused by the virus.
What exactly are staph infections? Staph is bacteria carried on the skin, which can enter the body through a cut or during a medical procedure, causing the infection. Most are minor, but certain strains are particularly resistant to anti-biotics and can cause athletes to miss significant playing time. Athletes are more likely to suffer cuts, and the locker room setting bunches players close to one another in a warm, damp environment, so they are especially susceptible to spreading the bacteria. Since football teams carry some 55 players on their rosters, and tend to have a higher degree of serious injuries to deal with, they are at particular risk. According to a 2005 survey by the NFL Team Physicians Society, 13 out of 30 teams that responded had had a player contract MRSA in recent years, for a total of 60 leaguewide infections.
In 2003, a team of researchers tracked the St. Louis Rams and found five players who caught eight MRSA infections. “We observed a lack of regular access to hand hygiene (i.e., soap and water or alcohol-based hand gels) for trainers who provided wound care,” they wrote in The New England Journal of Medicine. Other offenses included “skipping of showers by players before the use of communal whirlpools; and sharing or towels — all factors that might facilitate the transmission of infection in this setting.”
In short: use a little common sense, tough guys. But when it comes to infectious germs, even a 245-lb. bruiser like Gaither believes you can’t always outrun them. “You can’t worry about it to death,” he says. “It’s not like you can walk around and put gloves on your hand every 10 seconds. Sometimes, there’s just not that much you can do.” Except hope that these recent cases are a coincidental hiccup, and not an epidemic that seriously tackles the NFL.
@DK: I understand staph is far and away from being a Browns-only problem. It may be that the Browns situation is akin to the 2003 St. Louis Rams.
I just disagree that the past 5 years or so is something we can simply chalk up to coincidence. Maybe nothing will come of it, and if so, that’s great. But when a problem becomes such that it starts to receive national media attention the old, “where there’s smoke, there’s fire” addage comes into play.
gotcha ben…it just seems to me like too many people have tunnel vision around here and think its just a Cleveland Browns thing…
I dont think anything will come of it…I believe it was an education thing, and once people saw what happened to some of the big name guys, cleanliness has been of the utmost importance…I think it may have fallen by the wayside previously, and hygeine has came back to the forefront…
I dont think this will hold up, just my opinion…too many other people have had similar issues…he’s just the biggest name that can be used to bring attention to it…and if thats what hes going for, then good…I hope that no one ever gets it again…honestly I do…
Poor Phil Savage never got to suspend Joe J. for his staph infection…
Another sad chapter in the “new” browns’ history. FML.
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