Chester County, Pennsylvania:
The boy [a 17-year-old who had sustained head trauma in an auto accident] could not be treated at Brandywine Hospital in Coatesville because the trauma center had closed, so he was transferred to Crozier-Chester Medical Center in Delaware County….
‘The last neurosurgeon in Chester County was Sam Lyness, a world-class neurosurgeon,” [Robert] Surrick said, but Lyness left Pennsylvania when his malpractice premiums reached $383,000. With no neurosurgeons, Brandywine shut down its trauma center in 2002.
(Paul Carpenter, Allentown Morning Call, Nov. 28).
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