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Pulling Strings

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  • Casey Hester, M.D.

Hearing that her 14-year-old daughter has been in a car accident, a pediatrics residency director begins pulling strings — calling in expert friends and refusing to allow trainees to treat her daughter. She feels hypocritical, but the mother in her is unrepentant.

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Author Affiliations

From the Department of Pediatrics, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City.

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