At the point when youthful Freddie Fu touched base in the U.S. from Hong Kong in 1969 to go to Dartmouth, his auto radio regularly was tuned to the pop station in Hanover, N.H.
Among the tunes more than once played in those days was Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline."
Fu, 65, will know he has finished the hover of life Thursday night when, after 47 years, he will join the Panther Pit understudy segment at Heinz Field in singing "Sweet Caroline," a loved custom at Pitt recreations between the third and fourth quarters.
"I better take in the verses," he said.
Before that, Fu will be regarded on the field by the college for his 30 years as head football group doctor and orthopedic specialist for the athletic division.
"He resembles the master," mentor Pat Narduzzi said. "Whenever we have a question about some person, we can ricochet things off him. He's one of the best on the planet. I don't think I'd say in the U.S."
Fu, a summa cum laude graduate of Dartmouth with a restorative degree from Pitt, has been respected in Europe, Japan and all through North America for his examination and surgical methods in treating sports-related wounds, particularly tears to the foremost cruciate tendon.
He said he has performed about 7,000 ACL surgeries since the late 1970s.
A b-ball player of some note in Hong Kong — his mom was a star three-on-three player there — he said he has treated competitors from an assortment of games, including soccer, football, cricket and rugby, in addition to ballet dancers.
He propelled the UPMC Sports Medicine program at the Pittsburgh Ballet Theater, going to each generation so he could treat in front of an audience wounds.
Among his enduring accomplishments is outlining the $80 million UPMC Rooney Sports Complex that houses preparing offices for the Steelers and Pitt. He has been administrator of the branch of orthopedic surgery at the Pitt School of Medicine and UPMC since 1997.
Fu, the head group doctor at Mt. Lebanon High School, said he was instrumental in urging nearby secondary schools to have a rescue vehicle accessible at all football games, a typical practice today.
He was prodded toward that cause after a Mt. Lebanon running back endured an awful leg break when a contradicting player's cap collided with it. Fu stooped on the field for 30 minutes, holding the player's leg while sitting tight for a rescue vehicle.
"I let them know, 'You don't need me holding a leg for 30 minutes before 5,000 individuals, do you?' " Fu clarified.
Fu once declined to clear Pitt running back Curtis Martin to come back to the lineup after he seriously sprained a lower leg in the second session of the 1994 season.
"Every one of the daily papers thought he ought to play," said Fu, calling attention to mentor Johnny Majors never compelled him.
Martin missed whatever is left of the season however entered the following draft and played 11 seasons in the NFL. At the point when Martin was accepted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2012, he welcomed Fu to the function as his visitor.
"I don't know of numerous specialists who are welcome to the Hall of Fame," Fu said, gladly. "I ensured him."
Fu and his better half Hilda have two youngsters — child Gordon, 39, who works in promoting for a New York City medicinal organization; and
Among the tunes more than once played in those days was Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline."
Fu, 65, will know he has finished the hover of life Thursday night when, after 47 years, he will join the Panther Pit understudy segment at Heinz Field in singing "Sweet Caroline," a loved custom at Pitt recreations between the third and fourth quarters.
"I better take in the verses," he said.
Before that, Fu will be regarded on the field by the college for his 30 years as head football group doctor and orthopedic specialist for the athletic division.
"He resembles the master," mentor Pat Narduzzi said. "Whenever we have a question about some person, we can ricochet things off him. He's one of the best on the planet. I don't think I'd say in the U.S."
Fu, a summa cum laude graduate of Dartmouth with a restorative degree from Pitt, has been respected in Europe, Japan and all through North America for his examination and surgical methods in treating sports-related wounds, particularly tears to the foremost cruciate tendon.
He said he has performed about 7,000 ACL surgeries since the late 1970s.
A b-ball player of some note in Hong Kong — his mom was a star three-on-three player there — he said he has treated competitors from an assortment of games, including soccer, football, cricket and rugby, in addition to ballet dancers.
He propelled the UPMC Sports Medicine program at the Pittsburgh Ballet Theater, going to each generation so he could treat in front of an audience wounds.
Among his enduring accomplishments is outlining the $80 million UPMC Rooney Sports Complex that houses preparing offices for the Steelers and Pitt. He has been administrator of the branch of orthopedic surgery at the Pitt School of Medicine and UPMC since 1997.
Fu, the head group doctor at Mt. Lebanon High School, said he was instrumental in urging nearby secondary schools to have a rescue vehicle accessible at all football games, a typical practice today.
He was prodded toward that cause after a Mt. Lebanon running back endured an awful leg break when a contradicting player's cap collided with it. Fu stooped on the field for 30 minutes, holding the player's leg while sitting tight for a rescue vehicle.
"I let them know, 'You don't need me holding a leg for 30 minutes before 5,000 individuals, do you?' " Fu clarified.
Fu once declined to clear Pitt running back Curtis Martin to come back to the lineup after he seriously sprained a lower leg in the second session of the 1994 season.
"Every one of the daily papers thought he ought to play," said Fu, calling attention to mentor Johnny Majors never compelled him.
Martin missed whatever is left of the season however entered the following draft and played 11 seasons in the NFL. At the point when Martin was accepted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2012, he welcomed Fu to the function as his visitor.
"I don't know of numerous specialists who are welcome to the Hall of Fame," Fu said, gladly. "I ensured him."
Fu and his better half Hilda have two youngsters — child Gordon, 39, who works in promoting for a New York City medicinal organization; and
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