3/21: Former FSU star & NFL player Myron Rolle is becoming a neurosurgeon
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 21 March 2017
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Bruce is joined by former Florida State star and Rhodes Scholar Myron Rolle, who is about to begin a neurosurgery residency at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. Rolle, who spent three seasons in the NFL, talks with Bruce about the brain injury problem in football (10:00); Whether he would let his kids play football (13:00); Should NCAA student athletes get paid? (25:00); And more on how his football career could help him as a neurosurgeon and vice versa.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the Audible today, Myron Roll, former Florida State defensive back, road scholar, future president of the United States, that and much more on the Audible. |
| 0:17.4 | Welcome back to the latest edition of The Audible. I am Bruce Feldman. It is Tuesday morning as we tape. And once again, my buddy, Stu Mandel, is a no-show. I don't know what's going on. He said he's not feeling well after that the March Madness experienced this past weekend has got him under the weather. But we have another excellent fill-in. Actually, it's a superior fill-in. |
| 0:39.0 | He is Myron Roll. |
| 0:40.1 | You probably remember him as the former Florida State Defense Back, turned Rhodes Scholar. |
| 0:45.5 | Myron, are you officially a doctor yet, or is that not happened yet? |
| 0:49.8 | Not yet. |
| 0:50.8 | May 20th, when graduation starts or happens, then you can call me Dr. But you can |
| 0:56.5 | always call me my head. You know, that's all right. That's okay. Yeah, I feel like we go back a little |
| 1:00.4 | bit. So let's get to, you've been in the news a lot in the last week when you had posted |
| 1:08.2 | on Twitter that you're going to be transitioning to Harvard Med, right? |
| 1:14.5 | So explain to people who maybe have remembered you as a player, |
| 1:17.8 | remembered reading about you, hearing about you as a Rhodes Scholar, |
| 1:22.0 | now going into neurosurgery. |
| 1:24.5 | So what's the update with you from a professional sense? |
| 1:33.3 | Yeah, so I've always wanted to do neurosurgery. So what's the update with you from a professional sense? Yeah, so I've always wanted to do neurosurgery. It's been a dream of mine for a long time. Actually, even before I wanted to play professional football, I read Ben Carson's book, |
| 1:37.3 | Gifted Hands, and he planted the seed in my mind to do that. And then I went to medical school |
| 1:43.3 | after I was finished with the Steelers in 2013. |
| 1:47.0 | And after that first year of medical school, I had a chance to go up to Children's Hospital |
| 1:52.0 | of Philadelphia with a pediatric neurosurgeon there named Gay Storm. |
| 1:56.0 | And together we did a bunch of cranial cases, spinal deformative cases, ventricular peritoneal shuns for kids |
| 2:02.8 | with big head to hydrostaphylis. |
| 2:04.3 | So that really cemented that I wanted to do neurosurgery and specifically pediatric neurosurgery. |
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