Bernie Williams’ health wake-up call: lessons learned from his old-school dad
Former Yankees star Bernie Williams recalls his father's five-year battle with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a misdiagnosed and incurable ILD, attributing part of the decline to his dad’s 'old-school' reluctance to seek timely care. Williams now advocates for ILD awareness and self-advocacy through Boehringer Ingelheim's Beyond the Scars program, noting that ILD affects about 200,000 Americans and often involves significant diagnostic delays, especially among men.