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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.
