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...MUSC, Hunter became a patient of Dr. Adrian Rubin, who agreed with the Greenville doctor that Hunter needed a new liver but who also recognized that insurance was very much a factor. Rubin consulted with the hospital's financial staff, which confirmed that MUSC did not have a liver-transplant contract with Hunter's carrier, Physician's Health Plan. But, Rubin was told, Duke, where he knew the liver people, did have a PHP contract. So the physician recommended that Hunter go there. Rubin placed a call to Duke hepatologist James Trotter, explaining that he had a seriously ill transplant...
SEPT. 3 A phone call from Joe Robbins, a Duke financial coordinator, to Jackie Brown, PHP's transplant coordinator, was the first anyone at the insurance company knew of Hunter's whereabouts. Both recognized that the patient was "out of network," but it would be weeks before anyone would sort out how it was that Hunter ended up in a hospital with no plan to pay for an operation that could cost anywhere from $80,000, if the procedure went smoothly, to perhaps $1 million, if complications arose. The precipitating error apparently took place in the back offices of MUSC...
Hepatologist Trotter told Richard O'Connor, PHP's medical director, that Hunter was too sick to travel. O'Connor replied that the patient could stay at Duke through the weekend, but if he stabilized during that time, PHP wanted him flown to Tuscaloosa, Ala., on Tuesday. O'Connor also told Trotter, according to the insurer, that if Hunter's condition worsened over the weekend, Duke was "authorized" to perform a transplant...
...make deals," Tuttle said. "I'm going to take care of him. He's my patient." As of Tuesday night, however, there was no liver in sight, and time was running...
John Rosen, a psychiatrist from Philadelphia, did not beat around the bush when he treated his patients. Looking into their eyes, he told neurotic patients they were "crazy," accused schizophrenics of "lying," and threatened to "kill" any patient who acted "abnormal." His methodology was drastic, brutal and, surprisingly, well admired by his peers. He was awarded a faculty position at Temple University Medical School and the Man of the Year award from the American Academy of Psychotherapy. From the 1950s to the late 1970s, Rosen was psychiatry's Superman; he soared to the peak of his profession with the claim...