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Yale professor is first patient at new cancer hospital

Staff Reporter
Published Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Sterling Professor Maria Rosa Menocal walked into the lobby of Smilow Cancer Hospital , which was nearly empty Monday morning except for a camera crew trailing behind her. She laughed when she saw her radiation oncologist, Roy Decker, dressed in a suit rather than his typical lab coat. As classical music played, they embraced, and Decker handed Menocal a bouquet of flowers.
“It was a little hilarious,” Menocal, who directs the Whitney Humanities Center, said in a phone interview Monday night.
While he admitted that the flowers were not his idea, Decker said he was “ecstatic” that...

#1 By Rob69 8:50a.m. on October 28, 2009

Under Obamacare, the flowers would be the first to go.
Then would be treatment for anyone of Prof. Menocal's age...

#2 By @ 1 1:22a.m. on October 29, 2009

On what grounds do you state that?

Under the current system, spiraling costs will eventually bankrupt us.

#3 By '10 1:31a.m. on October 29, 2009

Yup, Rob, that's on p. 387 of the Bill, right? I assume you've read the whole thing twice.

Idiot.

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