Wilt Chamberlain And I

So Wilt Chamberlain once saw a psychiatrist for about a month at $50 a session to help fix his woeful foul shooting, but “after I came out of it after a month…the psychiatrist was a better free throw shooter than I was,” the NBA legend laughed about in an interview back in the ‘90s. It just goes to show you that doctors can’t fix everything.  I can relate, after talking to a sports psychologist about my golf putting yips, I shot a 74 on the mini golf course last weekend, 10 better than my average. This is all well and good but I still lost to a 5 year old because my orange ball got stuck in the windmill, which is really hard to do. I realize there’s a movement in our country to hold doctors more accountable these days, and tie their payment to outcomes, which I’m all for, but I’m fairly sure we should be realistic that some ailments – like my putting, and perhaps even the great Wilt Chamberlain’s free throws – are unfixable.