Suit: PSU Coach Tried to Influence Medical Decisions

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A former Penn State University team doctor has filed a lawsuit alleging that head football coach James Franklin improperly tried to influence his decision-making on injured athletes and pressured him to return them to the field, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Scott Lynch, who was removed March 1 as the football team’s orthopedic physician and the university’s director of athletic medicine, filed the suit Friday in Dauphin County Court in Harrisburg listing several defendants, including the university, Franklin, vice president of athletics Sandy Barbour, Penn State Health, and the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, his employer.

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