Adickes Traded the Gridiron for the O.R.
11/28/2006 12:00:00 AM | Football
Nov. 28, 2006
By JEANNIE KEVER
Houston Chronicle
It's game time in O.R. 39.
Sixteen-year-old Christopher Brown lies sedated, shrouded in blue surgical sheets save for his right shoulder, which glows a Betadyne orange.
Mark Adickes stands in the middle, surrounded by his team. It's just like old times, except there are no cheering fans sloshing beer on the sidelines. And no one ever called physician's assistant Edgar Fragoso and anesthesiologists Dennis Roberts and Michael Wenzel the Hogs.
At 45, Adickes has changed games.
He might be best remembered as an offensive lineman who played for Baylor University before going on to the pros, capped by a Super Bowl victory with the Washington Redskins. But Adickes now has joined the ranks of surgeons who kept him playing through career-threatening injuries and seven operations...
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