SD Hospital Charges Vary Dramatically, Outpace National Averages

Voice of San Diego | Sat, 25 May 2013 10:14:49 -0700

If you get pneumonia or pleurisy, a type of chest infection, you can expect to pay $27,000 at Scripps Green Hospital in La Jolla, but $41,623 at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, even though they're part of the same nonprofit system. The price tag ...

Voice of San Diego

Making The Mandela Tapes

CBC.ca | Sat, 25 May 2013 02:58:21 -0700

The freezing winds in the early days at the prison on Robben Island, with only a single blanket. The damp walls of the cell at Pollsmoor. Tuberculosis, pleurisy, previous lung infections. Want to know more about the life and times of Nelson Mandela ...

Leading Seaman Bill Crosby

Telegraph.co.uk | Tue, 21 May 2013 09:37:25 -0700

When he had recovered from his wound and from pleurisy, Crosby was posted ashore to inspect ordnance produced at a factory in Liverpool – where he met his wife. Post-war Crosby worked as a commercial traveller in menswear and as a shop manager.

Telegraph.co.uk

Hospital prices for same services vary widely

Sacramento Bee | Thu, 09 May 2013 00:01:36 -0700

At the opposite end of the spectrum sits Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Sacramento, which charges $25,407 to treat a simple pneumonia and pleurisy case – with the negotiated payment $7,444. Anthony Wright is executive director of Health Access ...

Sacramento Bee