Medicine is all about risk versus benefit. Everything in medicine has risk.
There's risk with everything. There is risk with running with a stress fracture. There is risk with using a fracture walking boot when you get a metatarsus stress fracture. You're actually going to be more at risk of other over-training injuries later. So there's risk even with not running.
Today, on the Doc On The Run podcast we're talking about how running with a stress fracture is all about risk management.