Is There a Doctor in the House?

More troubling news from the Institute for International Sport, with a new story from the Courant’s Amanda Falcone reporting that a physician identified as the on-call doctor for a major Institute event last summer had no idea he had been listed as the medical contact. Worse, Dr. Stephen Lahey was not only not licensed in Connecticut, he wasn’t even in Connecticut when the first call for help came from the World Scholar-Athlete Games. Meanwhile, the Associated Press reports that Rhode Island police have searched the Institute’s offices, as part of a continuing inquiry into what happened to a $575,000 state grant the non-profit received to construct a building at the University of Rhode Island. Officials with the institute acknowledge the money is gone and the building is incomplete, but say they had an informal agreement with state officials that the grant could be spent for other purposes.