Among the many healthcare workers treating patients with COVID-19 is someone who was featured on OnlyAGameNPR back in 2018: former San Francisco 49er Milt McColl.
After an eight-year NFL career, Bill McColl became an orthopedic surgeon.
But the NFL was a different operation in the '80s than it had been in the '50s — most players didn’t need second jobs any more. Plus, Milt acknowledges he was never the athlete his father had been — which is all to say the 49ers definitely weren’t going to switch around their practice schedule to accommodate him.
McColl would sometimes be late for anatomy lab, but fortunately he was paired up with a future surgeon. "The next thing we knew, we were in the playoffs," McColl says."And I was, like, 'Well, what am I going to do?' Because I’d already missed the first quarter. I kept going to classes on the side, but I was thinking, 'Gosh, I can’t just keep getting behind and behind.' And the next thing you know, we were winning playoff games.
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