(Texas Monthly) – Injuries are inevitable in the world of bull riding. Enter Tandy Freeman, the only physician some cowboys ever see.

Freeman is a fixture at rodeo events across the country. A Dallas-based orthopedic surgeon, he is the medical director for the Professional Bull Riders organization as well as for Justin Sportsmedicine Team, a group that has served rodeos since 1980. At 66, Freeman has been working with rodeo athletes for more than three decades. In that time he has missed fewer than twenty PBR competitions, of the more than two hundred that take place each year. He is likely the longest-practicing doctor in a field like no other. (Read More)