Former NFL defensive back, Dr. Myron Rolle, now a medical professional, has joined the battle against COVID-19 to help to treat suffering patients during this global pandemic.
What We Know:
- Rolle is a Rhodes Scholar and former college star from the Florida Seminoles before he was drafted in 2010 by the Tennessee Titans. Despite this player’s good performance, he hung up his helmet after only 3 years in the league to pursue medicine at Florida State University’s College of Medicine.
- He is now a doctor and one of the many heroes at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, saving lives amid the coronavirus pandemic. He works as a third-year resident in neurosurgery at one of Boston’s busiest hospitals. He told ESPN he still brings his game strategy to the operating room.
- Rolle stated “I think of the operating room like a game, like it’s showtime, let’s perform. I gotta do what I gotta do because people are counting on us right now.” He’s also mentioned that he has been spending a lot of time working on “individuals with respiratory distress and respiratory compromise, and the numbers are staggering”.
- He’s described many conditions doctors have been shouting recently, about lack of bed space and drastic changes such as converting operating rooms into ICUs considering all the COVID-19 positive patients.
Dr. Rolle is also founder of the Myron L. Rolle Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to the support of health, wellness, educational, and other charitable initiatives throughout the world that benefit children and families in need.
