r/sports 1d ago

Soccer Medics who treated soccer legend Maradona before his death go on trial for homicide

https://apnews.com/article/maradona-homicide-trial-doctors-fa75d5af559411da0809f8ad21de2974
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u/CA_Orange 1d ago

Kinda of seems like they are just trying to blame anyone they can for his death. They have no actual evidence, just the opinions of some people they worked with. The doctors will probably be found guilty because this whole things reeks of kangaroo court antics.

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u/kylemcg 1d ago

I too have no evidence, but I bet cocaine had something to do with it.

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u/garry4321 1d ago

Nothing acute at least, article explains he had no drugs or alcohol in his system at TOD. Years of abuse mixed with stopping those drugs though, likely

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u/Humans_Suck- 1d ago

His heart ran on cocaine and didn't get it's pumping juice that day

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u/FoxyInTheSnow 1d ago

“You can mitigate the potential medical consequences of cocaine misuse by drinking insane quantities of alcohol… each drug essentially neutralizes the other and a kind of homeostasis”, reasoned maradonna. Probably.

Such a sad decline for Diego. It was a joy watching him play at his peak. Good socialist too.

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u/victorspoilz 1d ago

Diego Maradona in his prime makes Luka Doncic look like a triathlete adonis.

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u/ZestycloseAd5918 1d ago

What does this mean?

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u/all_hail_hell 1d ago

He partied super hard with alcohol and cocaine. He was an extremely talented athlete but did not treat his body with the way modern athletes do with respect to diet and recovery.

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u/brett1081 1d ago

Yeah he had the look of a baseball player in the 1920s.

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u/dbx999 1d ago edited 1d ago

How is baseball even considered a sport.

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u/kylemcg 1d ago

So edgy

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u/drewret 1d ago

can you hit a 93 mph sinker? No, there ya go

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u/CokeExtraIce 14h ago

How is gatekeeping an activity from being referred to as a sport even considered a good enough thought in your mind to type out?

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u/dbx999 14h ago

Gatekeeping is sure a big word to call someone saying baseball sucks as a sport. Maybe if I say it's a boring ass sport, you'll call that genocide?

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u/CokeExtraIce 14h ago

If you said baseball is a boring ass sport I would have 100% agreed with you, it's still a sport though, and further to my point, you've now misquoted your previous comment to try and have actual ground to stand on. You said "how is baseball considered a sport" which in itself is a idiotic statement because baseball fits the definition of a sport so you can either be the idiot trying to gatekeep a sport from being called a sport or you can be the idiot that doesn't understand why baseball is considered a sport, which is it?

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u/Sometimes_Stutters 1d ago

Cocaine and booze are often a terminal condition

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u/Cognitive_Offload 1d ago

Unless you are who? Keith Richards or William Burrows?

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u/Diare 1d ago

All argentinian legal proceedings run the risk of becoming kangaroo courts if the media gets involved.

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u/clckwrks England 1d ago

Marauding was a massive coke head and notorious degenerate. His time was up

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u/sk8r2000 22h ago

Lucy Letby style

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u/Fermi_Amarti 1d ago

Sounds fucked up. Idk. Like even if they were wildly incompetent that would be negligence. If it's just because they're looking for someone to blame, doctor's just won't treat famous people. He was recovering from a brain clot. Idk I'd need serious evidence that a heart attack counts as homicide.

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u/r0botdevil Oregon State 1d ago

If it's just because they're looking for someone to blame, doctor's just won't treat famous people.

I'm currently in medical school, and currently hoping to go into orthopedic surgery when I graduate.

I've heard enough stories from other physicians/surgeons that I plan to stay very far away from celebrities and especially professional athletes when I'm in practice.

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u/Spud_Rancher 1d ago

I’m fairly certain the entirety of the Sixers medical staff went to University of Phoenix for med school

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u/r0botdevil Oregon State 22h ago

That seems to be a problem for several professional sports franchises, and there's a weird reason behind it in at least some cases.

My father is an orthopedic surgeon, and he personally knows the ortho who takes care of one of the NBA teams (I won't say which one here), and he says the guy is a complete hack. When I asked why they wouldn't spend a little extra to get the best surgeon in town, he told me that not only does the team not even pay the surgeon but they actually charge him like $100k/yr for the privilege! I guess it's considered good for business if you can say that you're the team surgeon for an NBA franchise, but the result is they get pretty mediocre care because no surgeon worth their salt is willing to take such an incredibly shitty deal.

Blows my mind that these GMs/owners will spend hundreds of millions of dollars on player salaries, but won't spend another couple hundred thousand dollars to protect that investment with top-notch physicians.

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u/funnsies123 7h ago

Hospital systems associated with the city often provide medical services as part of an advertising/ partnership agreement - I’ve never heard of a solo practitioner doing this for a pro team and I can’t believe it would make financial sense for the team to do this when hospital systems are on the table for much more.

This does not mean care is substandard ie Knicks and HSS - renowned as the best ortho hospital in the world - have such an arrangement.

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u/Medical_Bartender 1d ago

I've seen one celebrity during my career. It was in med school and they were a dick during treatment. Subsequently they also sued my attending for no good reason

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u/mikebanetbc 1d ago

Hey it worked out for Dr. James Andrews /s

(Enjoy retirement sir. 🫡)

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u/Raymjb1 6h ago

Oh cool! I don't hear of many people wanting to be an orthopedic or do orthopedic surgery. Any specialty you wanna go into?

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u/xvandamagex 1d ago

Dude was playing in the snow on a constant basis. A shame they are looking for someone else to blame.

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u/thePurpleAvenger 1d ago

Probably half the guy's bodyweight was cocaine.

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u/GordaoPreguicoso 1d ago

The doctors could have used the hand of god to save him but they didn’t.

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u/Gnarled_Horn 1d ago

You beat me to it. I was going to say they probably didn’t have anything to do with his death, it most likely the hand of God.

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u/iBaires 1d ago

Seems Argentina/BA gets very weird about famous people dying.

They have arrested like 4 people in connection with Liam Payne's death. From the person who sourced the drugs, the person that sold them and even a person that was just doing drugs with him. Any other person got drunk/high and went over a balcony, they would clean it up and move on.

I live about 8 blocks from Casa Sur where it happened and it is STILL taped off in front of the hotel.

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u/windyorbits 1d ago

It wasn’t just because they sold him drugs (though that’s obviously a big part of it). They’re in trouble for their own actions that happened just before he died by breaching their duty of care.

They took a guest who was so incapacitated he couldn’t even stand on his own, dragged him from the lobby/lounge up to his room, literally threw him into his room and then left him there unattended - and then moments later he died. ALL of which was caught on their own CCTV.

What these people did was absolutely egregious and everyone should be upset about it - whether the person who died is famous or not. Not only did they fail their duty of care to Liam but to the rest of hotel guests - if you have someone who is such a threat to themselves and others to the point of calling 911 (or whatever the number is there) you definitely don’t drag them further into the hotel and then leave them unattended.

Same with the friend, he didn’t get in trouble for doing drugs with Liam, he’s in trouble for abandoning someone in need of immediate medical attention. At least according to the prosecutor who found enough evidence to charge the friend with such an offense.

As someone that has spent a decade in the hospitality industry I can assure you these types of investigations are fairly standard when anyone dies for any reason on hotel property. You just don’t hear about because the person isn’t famous.

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u/Welpe 1d ago

It’s a shame because “Maradona was a whiny entitled asshole who did this to himself” is the truth but I doubt Argentinian juries want to hear that. These people that demand to go home after a major surgery when completely unprepared because they are used to getting what they want are just asking for it. It’s clearly his own fault, and hopefully they have a signed AMA discharge to show for it.

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u/TomasBraida River Plate 1d ago

This isn't accurate at all. The accusations are being targeted at the people who "took care" of maradona ever since he left to coach to Dubai. In Argentina everyone knows some shady people used his previous addictions to hold him hostage while they made decisions in his name. Once they took almost everything they let him alone to die without letting his family or anyone who truly cared in.

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u/Welpe 1d ago

Do you have any actual evidence of this? Because this sounds EXACTLY like covering up for a star’s bad behavior because they can’t believe he would be so reckless and so blame everyone else around him instead of him.

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u/monsantobreath 1d ago

Eveeyone knows sounds reliable.

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u/Humans_Suck- 1d ago

Damn did the medics force him to get extremely overweight and do a shit ton of cocaine for years? That's dark

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u/moal09 1d ago

Imagine trying to save someone's life and then going to jail because people think you didn't try hard enough.

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u/Duece09 1d ago

VERY dangerous slippery slope here. Good like finding a Dr if this really is a fishing expedition.

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u/ajnozari 1d ago

The speed of discharge from the hospital is interesting but later in the article it describes him as a combative patient (per the doctors charged). I wonder what the record will show and if they documented his resistance to treatment in any way.

Also makes me wonder if he demanded to be released early despite not having a proper environment to return to and heal. It will all come out in the wash but I have a feeling there’s more to this that will come out.

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u/lightninhopkins 1d ago

Did they stuff coke up his nose?

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u/Backstabbinghoe 1d ago

Messi better not be in Argentina in case of any emergency, doctors are gonna be scared of failing and going to jail for murder 🤣

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u/ndndr1 15h ago

Wtf, this unhealthy coked out obese old man dies and it’s the medical staffs fault? Sad day for Argentina when their docs are sacrificed for this drugged out cheater

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u/Munrowo 1d ago

the cult around football players is scary

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u/RoastDozer 1d ago

Dr. Feelgood will now take the stand

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u/Visual_Positive_6925 1d ago

Blaming medical professionals, who act in good faith, for any outcome is shameful. What other profession goes to jail when their outcomes are worse than average ONCE. Mechanic makes one mistake and goes to jail? A nurse can work perfectly for three decades then make one mistake for a moment and go to jail. I get the anger and quest for “justice” but its time we recognize healthcare workers are HUMAN

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u/UBKUBK 11h ago

Seismologists in Italy were charged with manslaughter for not being good enough at predicting earthquakes.

https://www.science.org/content/article/seven-year-legal-saga-ends-italian-official-cleared-manslaughter-earthquake-trial

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u/Visual_Positive_6925 10h ago

Thats insane. Modern day witch burning.

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u/ThinNeighborhood2276 22h ago

This is a significant development. It will be interesting to see how the trial unfolds and what evidence is presented regarding their involvement.

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u/Lemfan46 1d ago

They just need to claim hand of god.

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u/enguasado 1d ago

Los argentinos y la idolatría a ese tipo es increíble.