Bernie Sanders: Philly hospital closure ‘illustrates the entire problem’ of U.S. health care system

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  Ed Mahon comes to Spotlight PA from PA Post, where he covered state politics and policy, produced radio stories that were broadcast on public media stations throughout the state and on NPR’s national newscasts, and co-wrote a weekday newsletter. Prior to joining PA Post, Ed worked for six years as an investigative and political reporter for the York Daily Record, part of the USA Today Network. His reporting on failures in Pennsylvania’s system for protecting domestic abuse victims was a finalist in the national 2018 Livingston Awards for Young Journalists in the local reporting category. He was also part of a team whose coverage of the criminal justice system, including the aggressive use of civil asset forfeiture by York County prosecutors, received the 2018 G. Richard Dew Award for Journalistic Service from the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association. Before joining the York Daily Record, Ed covered K-12 education at the Centre Daily Times in State College and worked as a stringer for suburban sections of The Philadelphia Inquirer. He grew up in Delaware County, Pennsylvania.

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Siddique Akbar, a second-year nephrology fellow at Hahnemann, is concerned about uprooting his family if he has to find a new placement out of town.

‘A sense of failing’

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Siddique Akbar, a second-year nephrology fellow at Hahnemann, is concerned about uprooting his family if he has to find a new placement out of town.

• WHYY’s Nina Feldman shows how the planned closure of Hahnemann University Hospital will create big complications for 570 doctors-in-training — particularly ones from other countries. “I’m trying to play it cool,” said Siddique Akbar, who was born in Pakistan and is a second-year nephrology fellow at the Philadelphia hospital.

• Meanwhile, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders has weighed in on the planned closure, saying it “illustrates the entire problem” of America’s health care system. Politico’s Holly Otterbein has more about the Democratic presidential candidate’s comments.

• Dr. Kevin F. D’Mello, a physician at Hahnemann, said the demise of the 171-year-old hospital, which serves “mainly a low-income and vulnerable patient population,” has shaken his faith. “It is difficult to look at myself in the mirror these days without feeling a sense of failing my patients and trainees,” he wrote for Philadelphia magazine.

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