Consequences of Brain Scanning Boxers

By Jason Chertoff, M.D., M.P.H.Over the last year, boxing has seen a spike in traumatic brain injuries (TBI) and deaths secondary to injuries sustained in the ring.With these tragedies, many boxing professionals, celebrities, and commentators have proposed ideas to curtail this problem.One proposed solution, screening CT and MRI brain scans, seems to be gaining widespread support.For many reasons, which include violation of basic statistic principles and unintended downstream consequences, scre