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So, I have to ask you, is the quote from Dr Ochsner, or from an article or book about Hogan ?[/b][/color]
I have been stating all along that my information is from the authorized biography of Hogan. I guess I assumed those who had been reading the thread would know what I was quoting from. I must emphasize it was the authorized biography, because that means the author was given extensive access to the family and the doctors to elicit the information presented.
Garland,
I don't put much faith in those accounts.
In James W Finegan's "Pine Valley Golf Club", published by Pine Valley Golf Club, on page 28 he describes the circumstances surrounding Crump's death.
We know that that account was totally inaccurate, totally incorrect.
Yet, you would have us believe that any account, published with the blessings of the interested parties, must be accepted.
I wonder how President Clinton's authorized autobiography will characterize his relationship with Monica. I know what he told me when he addressed me and the rest of America on TV and told us, "Listen to me, I did NOT ....."
I asked you how Dr Ochsner could determine all that's been alleged prior to conducting invasive surgery and without the benefit of CT Scans, MRI's and Nuclear Medicine. You responded by stating that it was an authorized autobiography and therefore it must be accepted as The Gospel, despite the clear conflict with accepted medical practices, diagnoses and prognoses.
Kelly, et. al.,
Hogan's ordeal and his recovery were heroic, I already stated that.
As were his efforts to compete at the highest level. That's not the issue.
The issue is the degree of impediment and pain caused by the injuries previously suffered by each man, when they were playing in the 1950 and 2008 Opens. One 16 months prior to a competition, the other more contemporary.
As to Hogan's alleged act, it's counter intuitive.
If you have the time, in a car that may be a stick shift, especially if it was a floor mounted stick shift, and a drive shaft hump, to disengage yourself from the controls, (pedals, steering wheel and gear shift) you should have ample time to attempt to try to avoid the collision. IF, the car had a floor shift, if would be very difficult for the driver to get his body from the driver's seat onto the passenger in the blink of an eye. Anyone who's driven a floor mounted shift can verify that.
I understand that he was driving a Cadillac, but, I don't know what year.
Cadillacs came in stick and hydra-matic form, and the front seat was very wide.
The bus was passing a slow moving truck.
Why a bus would attempt to pass a slow moving truck in a fog is beyond me, but, instinctively, most reactions are to avoid a collision, not go through a thought process that leads one to conclude the inevitability of the pending crash, accepting the collision and then choosing an alternative course of action which entailed protecting the passenger by covering them with the driver's own body, and then acting upon and executing that decision.
It takes longer to go through that process and execute those manuevers than it does to violently turn the wheel, at the point of recognition of the bus, in an attempt to avoid the collision.
Again, it seems beyond counter-intuitive.
I don't know why a search for the truth would annoy anyone, but, that seems to be the local climate on GCA.com. recently