Luke Keary
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it felt foreign.
It felt strange.
It felt icky.
Like I'd never done it before.
I felt nervous.
I felt nervous calling up being like, oh, like, you know, making a simple appointment.
As a player, you've got the doctor's personal number.
You've got a personal relationship with a club doctor.
You've got physios.
You've got sports scientists.
And it's their job to keep you healthy.
You never make an appointment.
You're fast-tracked.
And it's within everybody's interest to keep you healthy.
Now, when you come out of the game, and again, this isn't a woe is me, but you have to relearn how to be a patient.
So we know the reservations in that.
So we identified that providing this screening service was a...
was going to be a tool to help people.
And it's in no way like the NRL feeling guilty of playing a contact sport.
It's an added bonus for all former players to get access to the screening.