ill health

A friend of mine called earlier this evening with some very sad news about some mutual friends of ours. It’s just breaking my heart, because I want so badly to help but I know from experience there is nothing I can do. I don’t like feeling helpless.

A few months ago, Knoxville was the site of a shocking event: hundreds of East Tennesseans and others from nearby areas flooded into downtown to seek medical care that had become unaffordable to them. A few months later, we learned that Baptist Hospital, one of the biggest and best of our fine local hospitals, was to be absorbed by the St. Mary's system.