Bret Hart On Benoit’s Doctor- Concussions and more
The Ottawa Citizen has got an article on Benoit’s Doctor, Phil Astin and the charges that he has been charged for. Here Bret Hart, long time friend of Benoit tels his side of the story siding witht he WWE and having pity on Benoit’s docotr. Here are the excerpts from the article on Hart’s statements:
“In defence of the WWE, I don’t know how you can stop guys from taking (drugs) that their doctors prescribe to them,” said Bret Hart.
“I feel sympathy for this doctor, because in his mind, he probably thought he was helping.”
But Hart predicts the charges laid against Astin could lead to more lawsuits.
“Doctors could be found liable for lawsuits related to the deaths of many wrestlers,” he says. “So many wrestlers have died, and they’ve always had an insurmountable amount of pills and stuff. It’s an epidemic in wrestling.”
“Benoit was a really hard, physical wrestler, and dropping that head off the top turnbuckle every night for some 20 years, there’s a lot of potential concussions in that alone,” said Hart.
Hart says he can understand how repeated injuries of that nature might alter one’s sense of reality.
“Chris was a really good guy and anybody who (knew him) knows that something had to have gone really wrong that day. I think what happened was more tied in to the concussion, and brain damage from that.”
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