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Soon to be a major film starring Will Smith, Concussion is the riveting, unlikely report of Dr. Bennet Omalu, the pathologist who made one of many medical discoveries of the 21st century, a finding that issues the life of America's favorite sport and sets Omalu in the crosshairs of football's most powerful organization: the NFL. In Sept 2002, in a dingy morgue in downtown Pittsburgh, a forensic neuropathologist named Bennet Omalu found a scalpel and made a finding that could rattle America with techniques he never designed. Omalu was not used to America, chasing the aspiration, a deeply religious man escaping the wounds of civil conflict in Nigeria. Your body on the slab in front of him belonged to a 50-year-old named Mike Webster, aka "Iron Mike", a Hall of Popularity center for the Pittsburgh Steelers, one of the biggest ever to experiment with the game. After retiring in 1990, Webster acquired experienced a dizzyingly steep drop. Toward the end of his life, he was living out of his vehicle, tasering himself to relieve his persistent pain, and repairing his rotting pearly whites with superglue. How does this happen? Omalu asked himself. How does a man like Mike Webster conclude like this? The search for answers would change Omalu's life permanently and put him in the crosshairs of 1 of the most powerful corporations in America: the Country wide Football Little league. What Omalu found out in Mike Webster's brain - evidence that Flat iron Mike's mental deterioration was no automobile accident but a disease caused by relentless blows to the top that could affect everyone playing the game - was the one truth the NFL would do anything to keep solution. Taut, gripping, and gorgeously told, Concussion is the stirring true report of one unlikely man's courageous decision to stand up to a multibillion-dollar colossus bent on silencing him and to tell the globe the truth.
