Dr. Barry Baines

Barry, Dr. Barry.

This is one of my quick medical twists.

Physicians oftentimes have no clue or just not aware of the cost of things like medications that they prescribe.

equipment, stuff like that.

So, you know, really coming from that perspective, what does an automated external defibrillator cost an AED?

How much, you know, just the originally just buying, buying it for, you know, there's also the batteries and pad replaces, stuff like that.

But what does one AED cost?

I don't, I have no, I don't know.

That was my next one.

Yeah.

Yeah, I'm glad you called on me.

I actually wanted to hear a little bit more about the second wave of initiative, which has to do with access to sports and I think some summer camp.

ongoing things and the research that we had.

And in particular, and this is very public health oriented, I just read a couple of months ago an article that actually just looked at in kids, usually after school is done, then there's no organized activity necessarily in the summer.

And they were looking at obesity.

in kids, which we know is an epidemic problem.

And they found that kids who, in this case, it was a poorer population that were able to get subsidies to go to summer camp.

And then as a result of that, being active in sports through the summer and the impact on obesity control was really pretty significant compared to kids that didn't have that.

So it sort of caught my eye when you said, you know, having access to sports and activity, that's really important from a physical perspective, but also it's the ongoing social connections, which can be helpful to mental health.

as well by having a continuity.