Million dollar recovery for failure to recognize coronary artery disease

An Altoona husband and father of two young children went to see his cardiologist complaining about chest pain, but the doctor dismissed the complaints as nothing unusual. Several days later, the man suffered a fatal heart attack after playing basketball. It was determined that he had coronary artery disease all along, and if the doctor had investigated properly, he would have discovered it and could have treated the blocked arteries with a stent or coronary bypass surgery. Either procedure would have prevented the death of this man. A award in excess of a million dollars was obtained for the widow and her two young children, both of whom had their college educations secured with the payment.