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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: The conflict of interests between the advice a physician gives vs. the advice a coach gives towards serious athletes.

Why does it seem like athletes never follow the strongly recommended rest and therapy that physicians, who spend years and years studying injuries, give? While at the same time, why do athletes follow the highly dangerous advice about injuries from coaches, whom themselves maybe only have a few months of formal education in injury treatment?
gpt
Because athletes are extremely competitive and train for incredibly long periods of time to perform for incredibly short periods of time. When it comes time to perform and there is a risk of injury vs. a risk of simply wasting the investment, the sunk cost fallacy is not very persuasive...

Keep in mind that coaches are often former athletes, everyone (except the doctor) has bought into the competitive culture of athletics.