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Article: DOCTORS DISCUSS SURGERY GARCIAPARRA STILL OPPOSES PROCEDURE
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- March 10, 2001
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FORT MYERS, Fla. - After an independent review of an MRI and X-
rays on Nomar Garciaparra's injured right wrist, Garciaparra's
doctors have raised the possibility of surgery.
Garciaparra said yesterday he is opposed to surgery as anything
but a final resort, and also asserted that Red Sox medical director
Arthur Pappas raised "half-truths" about a possible link between the
injury and the shortstop's offseason training.
Garciaparra said Dr. Norman Zemel, a noted hand specialist in Los
Angeles who
has treated Kevin Brown of the Dodgers and Kobe Bryant of the
Lakers, concurred with Sox team physician Bill Morgan's diagnosis and
initial treatment.
Garciaparra is wearing a cast for two to three ...