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Grandma Fudd
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Maybe if John had been having rigorous annual physicals all along this might have been discovered a long time ago and maybe something could have been done to shore up the defective aorta. I've had no heart syjmptoms but I've had nuclear stress tests, sonagrams, electrocardiograms, etc. all along for years. All these lawsuits do nothing but drive doctors away from practicing ( they cannot afford the insurance ) and make your and my insurance and treatment sky high. The money has to come from somewhere. The payment will be made back by whoever pays it to Mrs. Ritter by added costs we all pay. 67 million so she can go get boy toys, buy Rolls Royces, live in a mansion, tour the French Riviera and have servants ? It won't bring back John, but I'm sure with 67 million she will soon forget him and concentrate on "Lance" or "Steve". Must be nice. Sounds to me like she's another gold digger like Heather Mills.
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LAUREL
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I agree with Ms. Fudd. Regular preventative medical care at his age woulf have done more to identify a problem. I do not see the sense of suing someone who last examined him 2 years prior. When I hear these stories it seems like the family survivors are grasping for someone to blame for the loved ones death. Reallly they should just accept that we all die of something sometime and that some unfortunately die sooner than others due to imperfections in the human physiology because we were not intelligently designed.
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Deb
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John - we miss you and I hope you are still smiling and cracking jokes in heaven.
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Raven
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This is a said story. But remember we all have 1 thing in common...we all die!
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The Mastermind
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We actually have two things in common - we all die and we all enjoy a delicious basket of fish & chips from ye olde seafood shoppes such as Long John Silver's and Arthur Treachers.
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Fed Up American
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The Mastermind wrote: We actually have two things in common - we all die and we all enjoy a delicious basket of fish & chips from ye olde seafood shoppes such as Long John Silver's and Arthur Treachers. wHAT?? YOU ARE FUNNY
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Fonzie on the stand
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Deb wrote: John - we miss you and I hope you are still smiling and cracking jokes in heaven. I agree that he was a funny man but Grandma Fudd is 100% correct.
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Kill Whitey
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Where was Ritchie and Potzie?
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Pam
AOL
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Grandma Fudd wrote: Maybe if John had been having rigorous annual physicals all along this might have been discovered a long time ago and maybe something could have been done to shore up the defective aorta. I've had no heart syjmptoms but I've had nuclear stress tests, sonagrams, electrocardiograms, etc. all along for years. All these lawsuits do nothing but drive doctors away from practicing ( they cannot afford the insurance ) and make your and my insurance and treatment sky high. The money has to come from somewhere. The payment will be made back by whoever pays it to Mrs. Ritter by added costs we all pay. 67 million so she can go get boy toys, buy Rolls Royces, live in a mansion, tour the French Riviera and have servants ? It won't bring back John, but I'm sure with 67 million she will soon forget him and concentrate on "Lance" or "Steve". Must be nice. Sounds to me like she's another gold digger like Heather Mills. Any money she gets is being donated to the John Ritter foundation, not to cars, homes, etc...Obvisouly, you've never been in a loving relationship.... pretty sad for you.
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Pam
AOL
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obviously (fix the typo) before people complain!
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Jeff
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I hope the foundation was set up to address heart-related issues. I also hope Ms. Yasbeck wins her case.
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Dee-lyte
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Pam wrote: <quoted text>
Any money she gets is being donated to the John Ritter foundation, not to cars, homes, etc...Obvisouly, you've never been in a loving relationship.... pretty sad for you. Regardless of where the money is going, the awarded amount was extremely excessive! 67 million dollars? You can't blame a doctor for someone not following up on their own condition. Face it, many people with heart conditions do not tend to live long lives or die from old age. We're all going to be paying the price from that settlement. With this economic recession, we're just going to be taking an even greater hit in the pocket.
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accio
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If money awarded is going to a foundation, what is the purpose of the lawsuit? To punish the doctors? No doctor wants to make a mistake and a patient death is punishing without having a lawyers pretend to practice medicine. How long has this trial taken - a month? How long was John Ritter in the ER - not more than an hour from the sound of it. Especially after he spent most of the day feeling unwell at work, waiting for a nurse to come to look at him on the set... How did they arrive at the 67 million figure? I thought it was based on his earning potential if his show had lasted for decades - did he give all his earnings to this foundation, I doubt it. I think his widow just wants revenge on the doctors she sees as the reason her husband died. She is acting out of grief and because there is potentially a great deal of money involved, she had no problem finding lawyers to take the case. If she were the widow of a garbage collector in LA, she would not be in court because the lawyers wouldn't bring the suit for so little profit.
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AOL
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This thing is so overblown... I wish Ritter's family and friends would let the guy R.I.P. already.
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Puppyloo
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As someone who actually survived an aortic dissection five years ago, I find it interesting that they are basing some of the lawsuit on the fact that some sort of defect should have been identified in the scan two years previous to John's dissection. I went the ER and had a MRI scan for chest pains TWO DAYS before my dissection, and nothing was apparent.
This type of injury isn't always apparent, that's why so many cases go untreated (or misdiagnosed) and the mortality rate is extremely high. Every day that passes from the intial dissection drops your survival rate by another 50%. Also, aortic dissections tend to occur primarily in the elderly or those with connect tissue disorders (like Marfan Syndrome, of which I have) whom have very specific physical characteristics - with John's age and appearance, I'm not at all surprised that the docs wouldn't have suspected dissection from the get go.
While I do feel for his family and their loss, I worry that lawsuits like this only scare out of practice the doctors whom are familiar with aortic dissections & their repair - leaving folks like myself, whom face a high likelyhood of dissection (or reoccurance) without experienced professionals.
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Snatch
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Good. Justice is served for once, despite the never-ending onslaught of frivolous lawsuits brought by Americans who don't want to take responsibility for anything. Now shut up, you worthless, gold-digging s.cumbags.
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Dr Rabinovitz
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As in the Gladiator "Death smiles at us once all we can do is smile back.
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Sue Happy
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Everyone wants to sue for everything. The old slippery slope.
I pray John Ritter's family can find peace and healing for their grief. Money cannot soothe that loss.
Good judgment by the jury.
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cgw
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The Mastermind wrote: We actually have two things in common - we all die and we all enjoy a delicious basket of fish & chips from ye olde seafood shoppes such as Long John Silver's and Arthur Treachers. hilarious!
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Alfred E Newman
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Kill Whitey wrote: Where was Ritchie and Potzie? they were in Happy days and John was not
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