Dr. Jim O'Brien - Heart Health Special

Well, come here.

OK, so it was cardiology for you, but you are now.

And let me see.

Can I pronounce this word? Electrophysiologist.

Boom.

Yes.

That's

actually better pronounced than I can actually do it at this stage.

Yeah.

So

tell me the difference between a cardiologist and electrophysiologist then.

Well, look, I suppose all electrophysiologists are cardiologists, but it's not the other way around, if you know what I mean.

So you have to train in general cardiology and then you develop your subspecialty interest off that at Ramis Fires and you can do maybe cardiac imaging.

which some of my colleagues do, you can do cardiac interventional procedures.

So stenting, you know, you might have heard about people that have heart attacks, structural heart disease, which would be valvular dysfunction and, you know, implanting new valves, tavies, et cetera.

And then cardiac electrics, which is my jam.

I was sorry to say I'm literally as geeky as you might have guessed with the guitar and dinosaurs, you know, so I love Mario one growing up, you know.

I loved Independence Day.

I still think that all the Star Wars miniseries are only going from strength to strength.

So if you're into that kind of thing, if you have a gaming mentality, electrophysiology could be very much what you're interested in, you know.

So there's a lot of intellectual, but there's a lot of imagination goes with it as well.

So I really love it.

So I'm right in saying it's the electric.

So it's kind of getting the wires in, getting the electric modes in, getting all of that to get the heart pumping again.

But that's in through the skin, in through the leg, in through...