On this last day of January, 2008, I was tasked with the pickup of a prescription for a dear old friend. It could not have come at a worse time. I was struggling to meet a timetable to catch an airplane out of town.
I stood at the “prescription pickup” station at the pharmacy and I [...]

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We certainly would not send them a bill for poor care…or would we?
Last year I was visiting with a friend, a highly recognizable name in healthcare. He conveyed a personal story of a surgery performed that went horribly wrong, leaving his vision in one eye forever damaged. When the surgical mistake was “diagnosed,” it was [...]

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On Tuesday, October 25, my mother-in-law entered a prominent Pittsburgh hospital to undergo a routine surgical procedure. She was at the hospital to have cataract surgery performed. Before getting into her situation, the following factual information should be disclosed.
This year, great medical newspapers, like the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette have reported that nearly 2,000,000 U.S. citizens acquire [...]

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Why can’t Mr. Goodman’s example help us in healthcare?
My childhood was centered in a working-class bedroom community near Pittsburgh and just outside of McKeesport, Pennsylvania. McKeesport was a typical Western Pennsylvania mill town. U. S. Steel was booming, and the centerpiece was the U. S. Steel National Tube Works.
Saturday was a big day for us. [...]

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Often said . . . rarely practiced
We do not know the author of the oath or expression, “The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.” There is a consensus that it developed in English law courts sometime between 1189 and before the end of the thirteenth century. What is clear is how rarely [...]

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