Doctors : Mourinho putting result ahead of player's welfare

The Group have condemned Mourinho's treatment
of his medical staff as "unjust in the extreme" after
he publicly criticised club doctor Eva Carneiro and
head physio John Fearn for running on to the pitch
to treat Eden Hazard.
Mourinho called Carneiro and Fearn "naive" for
attending to Hazard for an injury towards the end
of Saturday's 2-2 Premier League draw with
Swansea, because Chelsea had already had
Thibaut Courtois sent off.
Carneiro - who is the highest-profile female doctor
in the league - has now been told she will no
longer be on duty for Chelsea first-team matches,
although she will continue to work at the training
ground. Fearn will also be missing from the bench
for Sunday's game at Manchester City
The 20-strong Doctors' Group criticised Mourinho
for putting results ahead of player safety, saying:
"The Premier League Doctors' Group considers that
removing Dr Eva Carneiro from the Chelsea team
bench for their next match is unjust in the extreme.
"The Chelsea medical staff were clearly summoned
on to the field of play by the match referee to
attend to a player.
"A refusal to run onto the pitch would have
breached the duty of care required of the medical
team to their patient.
"It is a huge concern that Dr Carneiro has been
subjected to unprecedented media scrutiny and a
change in her professional role, merely because
she adhered to her code of professional conduct
and did her job properly."
Former head of sports medicine and sports science
at Liverpool, Peter Brukner, also criticised
Mourinho.
"I thought it was appalling behaviour by the
manager," he said.
"The medical staff deserve a public apology and
I'm very disappointed the club hasn't come out and
done something to support them - they were just
doing their job.
"Our first priority as doctors and physios is the
health and safety of the individual player, and
that's what they were attending to. They were
doing their job and they've been criticised very
publicly.
"He (Mourinho) has a player who has gone down,
has remained down and the referee considered it
serious enough to summon the doctor and physio.
They went on as they must do, and as a result the
player had to come off the field.
"What do you expect the doctor to do, just ignore
the referee beckoning them on?
"They were only responding to the referee's
instruction to come and treat the player, so to
criticise the medical staff publicly in the way that
he did was absolutely appalling behaviour.
"Maybe he should be criticising his player for
staying down, and not his medical staff for treating
him."


SOURCE : FOOTBALL365