Jeremy Maclin - Philadelphia Eagle

[BigEd76]

hey, I said he'd be on the field.  Never said anything about actual practice...

[QB Eagles]

We talkin' about practice.

Apparently the FO treated him a little better than Weaver:

I wanted to keep it private until I knew for sure what was going on, and the Eagles were amazing. They were one of the only ones who knew. My relationship with them is more than professional. They were like family during this.

[hbionic]

Almost cancer>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>broken knees?

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Really young and talented wide receiver with bright future vs. might-as-well-be-dead fullback?

[Eagaholic]

He then was sent on a rather painful five-month journey to diagnose the ailment...

Maclin then went through a series of painful tests, including the insertion of large, painful needles through his back and into his chest to gather biopsy samples.

Man, I wonder what that was like

[Sgt PSN]

[PhillyGirl]

We talkin' about practice.

Apparently the FO treated him a little better than Weaver:

I wanted to keep it private until I knew for sure what was going on, and the Eagles were amazing. They were one of the only ones who knew. My relationship with them is more than professional. They were like family during this.

they kept it private because of HIPAA laws, not out of the goodness of their greedy little hearts.

[ice grillin you]

im pretty sure hippa laws dont apply to the eagles....they apply to the health care professionals

for instance it would be illegal for macks health care provider or insurance company to disclose his illness...but if mack told the eagles what the problem was there are no hippa laws preventing the eagles from disclosing it

someone correct me if im wrong but i think thats how it works

anyway the eagles treat the players they want very well....its the players they dont want or who have gotten on the wrong side of them who they disembowel

[reese125]

correct

hippa has nothing to do with it

[Rome]

It's amazing that even when this front office does something absolutely right they still get killed over it in certain quarters.

[PhillyGirl]

HIPAA as in they didn't tell the team about his condition until they knew for sure.

[ice grillin you]

mack was telling the team everything that was happening the whole way thru and asked them to not disclose any info...and they obliged

doesnt seem to me that hippa laws were a factor in any of this...unless im reading into it wrong

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

When IGY is defending the front office to PG, I fear we've reached the end of the internet.

[Eagaholic]

I believe the team would be covered under HIPAA law because they are employers of health care providers (or contractors to them as business associates), but players sign a disclosure authorization allowing the team to comment on a players condition (for example each team is required to furnish an injury report each week, and they couldn't do this if they got the information from a team physician unless the player had authorized it).

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Maybe I'm just shooting from the HIPAA, but I DON'T GIVE A shtein. SHUT THE farg UP ABOUT THIS ALREADY.