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Ger Moran

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35 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Today with David McCullagh
How a chance cardiac screening saved a young athlete’s life

And then when it came to the day itself,

Today with David McCullagh
How a chance cardiac screening saved a young athlete’s life

And one of the things that was noticeable was I think Jamie was the youngest person in the in the ward and in that hospital area that were in for similar treatments by a distance of about 30, 40 years.

Today with David McCullagh
How a chance cardiac screening saved a young athlete’s life

And they'd never see a young person coming in for this kind of procedure because I think we found out afterwards.

Today with David McCullagh
How a chance cardiac screening saved a young athlete’s life

The heartbeat kind of awareness and screening of young people's hearts is so rare because they think they're so fierce, rarely symptomatic.

Today with David McCullagh
How a chance cardiac screening saved a young athlete’s life

I guess in an overall sense, to get to that point, we were terrified.

Today with David McCullagh
How a chance cardiac screening saved a young athlete’s life

But looking back, it was like, thank goodness that we actually did find out, because otherwise there's that unknown ticking time bomb.

Today with David McCullagh
How a chance cardiac screening saved a young athlete’s life

It's obviously focused his heart's work and it's allowed him to not just get back to the level that he was at he's actually surpassed that and he's moved up the divisions in soccer and he's still doing really well now to this day so yeah

Today with David McCullagh
How a chance cardiac screening saved a young athlete’s life

There's tens of thousands of boys and girls who are going out onto gaily pitches and soccer pitches every weekend and they think they're invincible.

Today with David McCullagh
How a chance cardiac screening saved a young athlete’s life

And most of them probably are.

Today with David McCullagh
How a chance cardiac screening saved a young athlete’s life

But as Jamie said, to get the heart screened, it's the one thing you don't think about because it's on the inside.

Today with David McCullagh
How a chance cardiac screening saved a young athlete’s life

You think about what you look like on the outside or your hamstrings or your calves or wherever it is.

Today with David McCullagh
How a chance cardiac screening saved a young athlete’s life

So to just do this really, really short and simple.

Today with David McCullagh
How a chance cardiac screening saved a young athlete’s life

But if you do it, like Jamie said, there's no bad outcomes.

Today with David McCullagh
How a chance cardiac screening saved a young athlete’s life

You either, you're absolutely fine and you forget about it, or there is something that is well worth addressing and it can be addressed in a very straightforward way and you move on better and brighter than before.

Today with David McCullagh
How a chance cardiac screening saved a young athlete’s life

So that's why we decided to kind of do this.

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