Edit: If I missed the relevant information, could someone please point me to it?
Edit: I don’t mind downvotes, but I’m curious about what’s drawing them.
> I reached out to three medical professionals in hopes of finding out whether there was, however improbable it might sound, a connection between esports and collapsed lungs.
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> Without hard data, though, Bunney was hesitant to draw a correlation
It looks like the author just spoke to 3 med professionals, 1 of who is quoted as saying there is no hard data.
In reality, you can live through a lung collapse and do nothing. The doctor will take an x-ray, make sure the pocket of air outside the lung is shrinking and send you home. If it's fully collapsed, you'll get some surgery to repair it and a tube to make sure nothing gets back in. It never seemed as life-threatening as the article suggests. It wasn't fun, but I also never felt like I was near death or anything.
It feels like the author just found spontaneous pneumothoraxes to be interesting, and built an article around it.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birt%E2%80%93Hogg%E2%80%93Dub%...