A leading Canberra cardiologist has backed Corey Harawira-Naera to return to the NRL, despite concerns about playing a contact sport with a defibrillator inserted under his skin.
ANU Associate Professor Rajeev Pathak said Harawira-Naera's underlying heart condition would be the main concern, rather than having a subcutaneous implantable cardioverter defibrillator.
The cardiologist at Canberra Heart Rhythm Centre didn't know exactly what the Raiders second-rower's heart condition was, but he knew the device he'd had inserted in his chest intimately.