[neverdem]

Maybe. And maybe a liberal NY newpaper might have an ulterior motive to help gin up a health-care "crisis" that needs "someone" to "solve".

The author of this OpEd column is an OpEd Contributor, i.e. a guest columnist. The thrust of the column was for patients to refuse to be treated like crap. I you read to the end of the column you could have noticed the following:

Peter Salgo, a professor at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, is an internist and anesthesiologist, as well as the host of the PBS series "Second Opinion."

[neverdem]

drat, correction

If you read to the end of the column you could have noticed the following:

Peter Salgo, a professor at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, is an internist and anesthesiologist, as well as the host of the PBS series "Second Opinion."