CHICAGO MED’s Steven Weber on Getting to Showcase the John Ritter Foundation in the Medical Drama

CHICAGO MED — “Winning the Battle, but Still Loosing the War” Episode 803 — Pictured: Steven Weber as Dean Archer — (Photo by: George Burns Jr/NBC)

Recently, CHICAGO MED star Steven Weber was talking to his longtime friend/former WINGS and DRACULA: DEAD AND LOVING IT co-star Amy Yasbeck about her desire to find a “wider audience” for the John Ritter Foundation.

Yasbeck started the foundation in honor of her husband in 2003—shortly after Ritter’s death from a misdiagnosed acute thoracic aortic dissection—and was hoping to expand its reach “for educational, life-saving purposes,” Weber recalls.

Then, Weber read the script for CHICAGO MED’s Wednesday, October 5 episode, “Winning the Battle, but Still Losing the War”—which found his character, Archer, handling a patient who needs open-heart surgery after an aortic dissection.

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