Welcome to the Fat Emperor podcast.

I'm your host, Ivor Cummins.

Re-address these issues and look at them through fresh lenses and find such fabulous

outcomes.

It makes this job rewarding.

It makes me glad that I'm doing what I'm doing.

And I feel sorry for my colleagues who are stuck in the, you know,

following the protocols, click, click, click, low fat, here's more medicines for you,

low fat, here's more medicines for you. Oh, I'm sorry you had that stroke. I'm sorry

you had that heart attack. I think that my greater expertise is as an internist and dealing

with patients who have cardiac disease and how we modify

risk factors and prevent heart attacks from happening, which at the end of the day is the bottom

line.

Exactly.

Imaging is a tool, it's a powerful tool, it's a necessary tool, in order to accomplish our

goal of stopping heart attacks.

But my greater experience is in the latter than actually stopping heart attacks.

Imaging, yes, stopping heart attacks is where the payoff is.

Yeah, I couldn't agree more because there's no point knowing about the level of disease,

knowing if there's a huge risk present, if you don't actually intervene to change the future. So absolutely, that's what it's all about. So we're going to actually talk about both, I'd say, in the coming hour or so. And I'll probably preface things by certainly mentioning David Bobbitt and the Irish heart disease awareness that he set up.

That's the only reason I'm able to actually create these podcasts and do all the other work I do for

awareness. And as you well know, and we'll talk about it, David had in 2012 a calcium scan, actually byke or coincidence and found out he had a 900 score and three blocked archeries after essentially passing a series of executive medicals and treadmills over the previous five six years and being told he was bulletproof.

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