Concussion: by Jeanne Marie Laskas | Summary & Analysis
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Concussion by Jeanne Marie Laskas chronicles the story of Dr. Bennet Omalu, a Nigerian-born forensic pathologist known for his seminal research on chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative brain disease largely found in people who have sustained repetitive brain trauma. In 2002, while working as a pathologist at the Allegheny County coroner’s office in Pittsburgh, Omalu autopsied the brain of Pro Football Hall of Fame center Iron Mike
Webster of the Pittsburgh Steelers. This led to his groundbreaking discovery of CTE in the brains of relatively young and otherwise healthy football players. When he published his first report on CTE in 2005 in Neurosurgery, Omalu assumed that the National Football League (NFL) would rejoice and take steps to ensure player safety. Instead, this report would lead to a decade-long battle with the NFL, which refused to acknowledge the connection between football’s dangers and the resultant health of its players.
Omalu at first seems an unlikely protagonist in a drama centered around American football. He was born into a large Nigerian family whose members were overly protective of sensitive Omalu. Oba, his father, decided that a child with Omalu’s intelligence should study medicine, a profession that would allow him to help people. But during his time in medical school, Omalu became severely depressed.
After medical school, Omalu completed compulsory paramilitary service by working as a doctor in a small village. He was surrounded—and fascinated—by death. He was especially sensitive