KANSAS CITY, Mo. — It was 6:30 p.m. on May 19, and Dan Henson wasn't ready to die.

"I started having pain in my chest, started hurting, couldn't breathe very well," he recalled.

His wife, Roxanne, rushed him to nearby Amberwell Hospital, only 5 minutes away in Atchison County, Kansas.

Once they got there, the staff tested his Troponin levels, a protein by-product that is associated with heart attacks.

It turned out he had eight times the normal amount of Troponin.

"They said [I] might have [had] a heart attack," Dan said.

Worse, Dan said they told him they couldn't do anything for him at the hospital.

Amberwell's doctors concluded that Dan needed to be transferred to a unit with a better cardiology department than theirs.

And this is where the real problem began.

Doctors decided t

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