I find it hard to understand why his heart condition wasn't diagnosed and treated.
Unless he had an echo-cardiogram, which is not a normal routine test, it is possible to miss it. My nephew had a sports physical 2 weeks before he died and was cleared to play sports. He died on the baseball field during practice.
I find it hard to understand why his heart condition wasn't diagnosed and treated.
Unless he had an echo-cardiogram, which is not a normal routine test, it is possible to miss it. My nephew had a sports physical 2 weeks before he died and was cleared to play sports. He died on the baseball field during practice.
I was not given an echo-cardiogram until after I had been hospitalized for atrial flutter. And even that is not nearly as informative as a TEE proceedure (similar, but done by running the device down your throat and viewing the heart from the back).
My late father and I had/have similar heart conditions and yet the doctor for my overweight, 56 YO brother says for him there is no reason for any heart testing beyond a simple EKG. Not even a basic stress test. Burns me up major league.
Also, it may be that it had been recommended to Penn by doctors that he have heart related testing done and he simply ignored their advice. I've seen a lot of that. It's the "If I don't know about it, it can't hurt me" reasoning, usually referred to as denial.