Player Dies

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This is a sad story but not an unpredictable one. I am a physician (Emergency Medicine) and I can assure you that it is nearly impossible to detect a situation such as this unless there were some type of symptoms that would lead the physician to investigate. There are many other examples of people collapsing on the court or playing field from congenital abnormalities that were never discovered because there were never any reasons to look for them. People get hit in the chest with a thrown ball and develop a fatal abnormality of the heart rhythm. You cannot prevent what you cannot predict. It is impossible and unreasonable to attempt to test every individual for every possible abnormality which they may have.