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Dr. James Gladstone: “Deep Sympathy for Derrick Rose, the Bulls Star-Crossed Star”

  • The New York Times
  • (February 25, 2015)

The cloud of uncertainty that had engulfed Derrick Rose of the Chicago Bulls since 2012 was beginning to recede. Then came the news late Tuesday night that Rose would need his third major knee operation in less than three years. The injury, the Bulls said, was a torn medial meniscus in his right knee, the same injury that cut short his 2013-14 season after only 10 games. James Gladstone, MD, co-chief of sports medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in Manhattan, said medical research suggested that a repaired meniscus had up to a 30 percent chance of being torn a second time. “More than anything else, he plays a sport that makes him and anyone else who plays in the way he does prone to injury,” Gladstone said. Learn more