MONTREAL, QUEBEC
<i>...and we were taking about people</i> <i>who have too much time</i>
<i>but there's someone who must</i> <i>not have enough of it.</i>
NFL360 NFL M.D.
<i>Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, hello.</i>
-Good morning. -Welcome.
<i>All right.</i> <i>You're going to become a doctor?</i>
Yes. Presently, I'm doing my internship
in ER at St. Mary's hospital.
It's important for you, for Quebec, for young
Quebecers, to be a role model?
You have a big salary, you could afford a big car
but apparently, you still drive your Jeep.
What year is it?
1981.
-Do you still have it? -Yes, absolutely.
So you could have a great lifestyle,
travel around the world,
during the off season and relax
but no, it's important for you to continue studying
and to pass the message on.
<i>My name is Laurent Duvernay-Tardif.</i>
<i>I'm an offensive lineman</i> <i>for Kansas City Chiefs in the NFL...</i>
<i>and also happen to be</i> <i>a medical student</i>
<i>at McGill University in Canada.</i>
I'm going to look to compare, there is a deformity for sure of the AC joint.
McGill
If I were to ask you to put yourself like this,
and try to go towards the outside, is that fine?
Towards the inside?
When we talk about AC joint,
it's the connection between the clavicle
-and the acromion right here. -Yeah.
<i>People are asking me,</i> <i>how do you balance medical school</i>
<i>and how do you do it with football?</i>
LAURENT DUVERNAY-TARDIF CHIEF'S GUARD
And I think for me, the hardest part is to transition.
<i>Going from a place where</i> <i>everybody is looking over you</i>
<i>to make sure you are</i> <i>optimized on the field,</i>
<i>to an environment where you're</i> <i>not the center of attention anymore,</i>
<i>the patient</i> <i>is the center of attention.</i>
And now, you are part of that team
that's trying to make the patient better
KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI JUNE 15, 2017
<i>That change of mindset</i> <i>can be really hard,</i>
<i>especially when you have to do it</i> <i>in less than 12 hours.</i>
We're done with mini camp.
Just got back home.
Packing because we got a 5 o'clock flight to Montreal.
'Cause after all, Saturday, I'm working in the emergency, so...
Got to change the mindset quickly on that one.
It's always good to go back, speak French,
be with your families and friends.
<i>Please hold on.</i> <i>This train is stopping.</i>
<i>Laurent was hitting</i> <i>both medical school and football</i>
<i>all at the same time.</i>
He's been able to not only keep up with both, but excel at both.
DR. J. SCOTT DELANEY
EMERGENCY AND SPORTS MEDICINE MCGILL UNIVERSITY
And in the downtime, if he has any,
<i>he uses it to sort of catch up</i> <i>on his medical school</i>
<i>or to catch up on his football.</i>
<i>And you have to love what you're doing</i>
<i>because when you're tired,</i> <i>and you're sore after football,</i>
<i>if you don't enjoy opening a book</i> <i>and reading about emergency medicine,</i>
<i>or reading about neurology,</i>
<i>you just won't be able to do it.</i>
<i>When you have that passion</i> <i>to be able to do that</i>
<i>it allows you to manage</i> <i>both very well.</i>
MONTREAL, QUEBEC JUNE 17, 2017
What we're really aiming at is seeing the cortex.
Which is white, and doesn't let anything go through,
all this is the cortex.
This here?
See there? Center it.
There, go down.
It's here on the side.
When I do this here, does it hurt?
Yes.
Do you do physiotherapy at the residence?
I did some for a little while.
Did you like it?
Yes.
Because we don't want you to fall again, right?
We want to make sure today that there aren't any problems.
I don't want you to fall again when you go home.
After a month of medical school in Montreal,
Laurent travels to St. Joseph, Missouri
for the start of the training camp.
ST. JOSEPH, MISSOURI TRAINING CAMP
<i>Training camp has begun in St. Joe,</i>
<i>and the fans are excited</i> <i>for the Kansas City Chiefs</i>
<i>to begin the 2017 season.</i>
ANDY HECK CHIEF'S OL COACH
Larry's greatest strength, and this was apparent from the moment
<i>we started, evaluating him</i> <i>as a collegiate player,</i>
<i>is how hard he competes.</i>
<i>I mean, this guy</i> <i>is a tenacious finisher,</i>
<i>a tenacious competitor,</i>
<i>and then, on top of that,</i> <i>brute strength.</i>
In my mind, he's become one of the best guards in the League.
So, 63 is running. Try setting him,
go this way, open the hip, stop him.
So you set him like he's coming to you
then you go this way, you open the hip, you run, block.
MITCH MORSE CHIEF'S CENTER
The thing about Larry is, much like his medicine,
he's always striving to perfect his craft.
<i>It's hard enough</i> <i>to be a professional football player,</i>
<i>and for him to do that</i> <i>and balance becoming a doctor,</i>
I think that you can't speak highly enough
of what kind of intrinsic motivation that takes.
<i>Everybody was telling me, "You should</i> <i>maybe just focus on medical school,"</i>
<i>"'cause medical school</i> <i>is hard enough."</i>
<i>And I said no.</i>
I love to play the game and I want to try to play it
at the highest professional level I can do it.
<i>Football is</i> <i>a short lived business, man.</i>
It only takes you to a certain age and then you're done playing.
ANDY REID CHIEF'S HEAD COACH
It's not something like tennis or golf where you continue to play.
This is one that, by the time you're 30,
you better have another profession, at least in mind.
<i>When I saw Coach Reid</i> <i>in Kansas City,</i>
<i>when I was doing my pre-drive visit,</i>
he told me that I should try to pursue both at the same time
and there was no reason why I shouldn't do it.
<i>That kind of respect</i> <i>and trust from your coach,</i>
<i>I think it means a lot.</i>
<i>He's been helping me</i> <i>through the process since day one.</i>
I know he's passionate about it.
This isn't something that he just...
This isn't recreation that he's doing here.
<i>He's got this goal to be a doctor</i>
<i>and if I can help him some way</i>
<i>with a post-playing career,</i> <i>I'm all for that.</i>
<i>When you have a passion,</i> <i>you just don't count the hours.</i>
<i>I know sometimes,</i> <i>teammates are on the beach</i>
<i>it's off season, you should relax,</i>
and I'm in Montreal with two feet of snow,
<i>going to my rounds</i> <i>at 6:45 in the morning.</i>
<i>But at the same time, I just love it.</i>
<i>I know that football</i> <i>is not gonna last forever.</i>
<i>I need to both in order to have</i> <i>that long-term plan</i>
<i>of medicine in the future.</i>
<i>So you could have a great lifestyle,</i>
<i>travel around the world,</i>
<i>during the off season and relax</i>
<i>but no, it's important for you</i> <i>to continue studying,</i>
and to pass the message on.
Yes, but I think, first and foremost, to pass along my passion.
<i>My passion for sport</i>
<i>and my passion</i> <i>for medicine and studies.</i>
<i>When you have passion</i> <i>you don't look at the time.</i>
<i>And I believe this is my case.</i>
<i>I nurture myself with projects.</i>
<i>Excuse me for the expression, but</i>
<i>I really adore what I'm doing.</i>
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