Wed, 02 Jul 2003

Stella is Cool

Gotta love the Stella Awards. Here's an excerpt:

Hazel Norton of Rolling Fork, Miss., read there was a class action

suit against the drug Propulsid, which her doctor had prescribed to

her for a digestive disorder. Despite admitting that "I didn't get

hurt by Propulsid," Norton thought "I might get a couple of thousand

dollars" by joining the lawsuit. When her doctor was named in the

suit, he quit his Mississippi practice -- where he was serving the

poor. He left with his wife, a pediatrician and internist. That left

only two doctors practicing at the local hospital. So while Norton

wasn't harmed by the drug, all her neighbors now get to suffer from

drastically reduced access to medical care because of her greed.

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