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Transparency: Good For Thee But Not For Me!

Columbia Journalism Review: "My...colleague Charlie Ornstein likes to say that stories about hospital ribbon-cuttings, wings named for wealthy benefactors, and expensive new technology are what hospitals want journalists to report on. They are less eager to have us write about quality of care, or malpractice suits, or anything that disturbs the pretty pictures they want to paint. So when a press release for a Boston hospital’s new operating rooms and post-anesthesia care unit showed up, I took a second look."

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