Trent Williams ends season-long holdout, rejoins Redskins

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Originally Posted by BigHairedAristocrat

Hightower is using a strawman fallacy. He's claiming that Casserly said Trent chose not to treat his illness because he wanted more money. Thats not what Casserly said at all. He said Trent didnt heed the specialists advice (presumably not a member of the redskins staff) that he have surgery. Then 3 years later, Trent is asking for more money. One was not related to the other.

What Hightower is saying is that if a doc had explained the severity to him 3 years ago, Trent would not have ignored it. I imagine it was somewhere in the middle, the staff told him he might want to get it checked out just to be safe. It probably wasnt even cancerous when the Skins staff told Trent something about it.

Casserly needs to watch it though. The NFLPA statement was saying he essentially violated HIPAA by using an anonymous source (cough Bruce cough) to disclose Trent's private medical information. The NFLPA statement was also saying they wont stand by and allow one sided "anonymous sources" to be published on the NFL Network to smear an NFL player.

I work peripherally with HIPAA and it only applies to medical organizations doing the disclosure .. so Casserly is not subject to a HIPAA violation but Id bet Bruce may be as part of the Skins and perhaps CBA language.

Authorizations are for allowing authorizations for medically necessary and related purposes, usually to a defined and named parties ... not for being leaked to the media to smear a patient in public.

It all stinks, Bruce sucks, Trent should have been traded and we should be sitting on 2 top 10 draft picks ... instead we get to play the leak game where fans sit around and decide how much or how little to trust each individual anonymous" leak ... one drip at a time.