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Perhaps we are overblowing this (or I am anyway), and it was a throwaway remark which didn't have the force we are perceiving it to have in the original Italian. As I said, my friend who has held much higher official positions than Dr Costa would not, I believe, have said something like this, but perhaps Dr Costa's point is really that from his point of view the fracture was only a minor one/a crack (it was apparently only detected by a CT scan and not by the initial X-ray) and not something which he considers would be sufficient on its own to stop Dani from riding.
However it is Dani's clavicle, and given what Dani has been through with clavicular injuries and surgeries in the past, and what has just happened to Jorge, especially if he was feeling poorly otherwise he has probably imo pulled the right rein, particularly with Jorge also out for the race and perhaps for more races in the future. He is just coming up to the series of races/tracks which particularly suited him/the Honda last year and which he dominated then, and if he can't pull back 2 points from MM in his rookie year then MM deserves to win anyway.
I do see some ethical dilemmas in general in regard to professional sportsmen and their relationship with doctors who are also employees of their employers, and think for instance that Stoner was entirely entitled to seek his own medical advice and treatment in 2009, whatever the motogp or Ducati doctors may have said, since it eventuated they had not been able to diagnose a medical illness, not entirely surprisingly since they are mostly orthopaedic surgeons. I see bigger problems with such sportsmen as footballers, basketballers, baseballers etc with their livelihoods and professional futures and the success of their teams both dependent on injuries, with the injuries often having occurred in the service of the team, and with short term and longterm consequences possibly at variance.
