Lynn M. Petrovich
Posts by Lynn M. Petrovich
The Things We Take for Granted
Five months ago, I was told I’m going blind in both eyes. As the victim of aggressive posterior cataracts (unlike anterior, front, or normally talked about cataracts which are decades…
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Sallie Mae – WTF?
I think if SLM Corporation, commonly known as Sallie Mae, had a company mascot it would be an overflowing toilet because when dealing with it, you’re navigating an abundance of…
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Old Frankenstein: Rest in Peace
My father, Joseph Leslie Reddan, passed away on October 28, 2012 after a 4-year contentious battle with Alzheimer’s disease. He was 84. In an essay published a year ago, December…
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The Hunger Games
Sometimes I think there’s something wrong with me. This mostly happens when I learn of a disturbing trend or incident and find my reaction to be in contrast to those…
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I Demand an Investigation to Stop Hospital Horror Stories
An Open Letter to The New York Times Dear Anemona Hartocollis, In 2007, our daughters were 22 years old. And if someone had drugged, handcuffed, and left my…
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act for Dummies
“You see, a bank or a company…those creatures don’t breathe air, don’t eat side-meat. They breathe profits; they eat the interest on money. If they don’t get it, they…
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Occupy the Nonprofit Hospitals! –Part 2
Part 2: The Basically Bogus Bankruptcy of Hoboken University Medical Center In 1992, New Jersey’s population was 7.8 million. Two decades later it topped 8.7 million. Despite the increase in…
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Occupy the Nonprofit Hospitals
Part 1: The Outrage: Money, money everywhere but just a drop for health care New Jersey has a handful of trauma hospitals. For two decades my mother worked in…
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The VA Monologues
“I don’t want to shock anyone here, have people dashing out of the room; but the VA is a socialized health care system. [So] that’s socialized medicine in the…
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The Bride of Old Frankenstein
Capitalism’s Wedded Bliss of Profit and Exploitation Two years ago, at the age of 77, my mother had totally unnecessary knee replacement surgery. Until the time mom called me…
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