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A ‘payday loan’ from a health care behemoth

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Mental health ‘ghost networks’ — and a ghost-buster

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A $229,000 medical bill goes to court

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A doctor’s love letter to ‘the People’s Hospital’

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Lessons from “wrestling with a giant”

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