Kirk Burkhalter on Search for Nancy Guthrie’s Pacemaker: My Eyebrows Raised Because ‘Why Hasn’t This Been Done Earlier’

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BURKHALTER: “I would assume that pacemakers, if they transmit, they don't transmit very far.”
TUR: “It's a low frequency. It's Bluetooth.”
BURKHALTER: “It's a very low frequency.”
TUR: “Yeah.”
BURKHALTER: “And my eyebrows raised because I don't want a Monday morning quarterback, but why hasn't this been done earlier?”
TUR: “Yeah.”
BURKHALTER: “Like, we knew that Nancy Guthrie had a pacemaker and this actually was a health issue. And perhaps in fairness, someone just thought of it, that it came up with -- came up with the idea.”