Bennet Omalu

1968-09-30

Bennet Omalu is a Nigerian-American forensic pathologist known for pioneering research on chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

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I am a spiritual person. I'm a Catholic. I treat my patients, the dead patients, as live patients. I believe there is life after death. And I talk to my patients. I talk to them, not loudly but quietly in my heart when I look at them. Before I do an autopsy, I must have a visual contact with the face.
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Actually, I'm for football. But I'm for intelligent football that enhances us rather than football that steals away who we are.
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When I read Mike Webster's file before I began his autopsy, I knew he was more than a 50-year-old heart attack victim. His file and the television reports of the death of the former Pittsburgh Steelers center described a long, steep fall into bizarre behavior. I suspected he suffered from some sort of brain disorder.
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