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Thanks to the Happy Hospitalist for pointing us to yet another fine example of covert healthcare rationing.
Happy directs us to the case of one Phillis Dewitt, a Peoria nurse manager who worked for Proctor Hospital until she was fired in 2005, allegedly because her husband’s hospital bills were becoming too [...]

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