AMERICANALMANAC (Jonah Adams) - Amy Yasbeck says John Ritter's misdiagnosis turned a survivable crisis into a death sentence
John Ritter's widow says the beloved sitcom star died in September 2003 because emergency doctors treated him for a heart attack he never had, and the foundation she built in his name is now pushing families to demand the one scan that could save their lives. Amy Yasbeck and her son Tyler Ritter sat down […] The post Amy Yasbeck says John Ritter's misdiagnosis turned a survivable crisis into a death sentence appeared first on American Almanac .
John Ritter's widow says the beloved sitcom star died in September 2003 because emergency doctors treated him for a heart attack he never had, and the foundation she built in his name is now pushing families to demand the one scan that could save their lives. Amy Yasbeck and her son Tyler Ritter sat down with Fox News Digital ahead of what would have been Ritter's 78th birthday on Sept. 17 to lay out, in plain terms, what went wrong the night the "Three's Company" star collapsed. Ritter walked into a hospital with chest pain. He fit the profile, right age, right weight, and the medical team made a snap judgment. They loaded him with blood thinners and never ran imaging. The diagnosis was wrong. Ritter was not having a heart attack. He…Open