670 The Score host Dan Bernstein was absent from Bernstein & Holmes earlier this week. He returned to the program Thursday to detail that he was gone from the show due to a medical issue.
“You looked like someone who had escaped from somewhere,” co-host Laurence Holmes joked to begin Thursday’s program. “We were in the middle of the meeting, and Dan walked into the middle of our meeting and said ‘Hi guys, don’t get too close, I haven’t showered. I just came to get my car.’ He looked like Louis Winthorpe III getting out of jail.”
Bernstein then explained his absence stemmed from reaction to his physical.
“Everything is mostly ok,” Bernstein said. “What happened was, I had a heart scare. I went in for my physical — and I have been dealing with some stubbornly high blood pressure for a while now. It’s taken it from horrible to not so horrible. There’s a physical side and a mental side that we’re dealing with here. My intense worry about some of my actual issues conflated to create what could mimic a heart event.”
Bernstein said his doctor was concerned about some of his test results, so he went immediately from his physical to the emergency room where he was met by multiple cardiologists.
However, after multiple tests, no blockages in Bernstein’s heart were found, with doctors telling him “these are the best coronary arteries I’ve seen all day”.
The host then said it was all precautionary and is glad to return back to work.
“There was no emergency, there was no event, there was no attack or blockages, we’ve just got to figure out both sides of it. So that’s where we are.”
