Surviving a Heart Attack with Luck and Exercise On the day Robert Riding had a heart attack in 2021, luck was with him. “I usually worked home alone, but that day I just happened to be meeting a realtor at a house we were selling that my two sons lived in,” he says. “I got…

Dave’s Unexpected Prostate Cancer Diagnosis Inspires a New Outlook on Life Sixty-year-old Dave O’Brien jokes that he’s “not a very exciting person,” but the past year has been anything but boring. In October 2024, a routine blood test revealed that Dave had a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level of 17. This was concerning because a normal…

Seeing BMC South Doctor “The Best Decision I Ever Made” For the past 22 years, Richard Lentini has been under the care of cardiologist Dr. Benoy Zachariah at Boston Medical Center – South. “I started seeing Dr. Zachariah after I had my first heart attack in 2003, and it was the best decision I ever…

Ann’s Secret to a Long Life: Faith, Family, and a Good Cardiologist Ninety-eight-year-old Ann Motekaitis still remembers the night she first met cardiologist Dr. Andrew Kriegel. It was July 1984, and she was out at a restaurant watching her son, Tom, perform. “I thought I had indigestion, but then it kept coming back. I was…