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Volume 347:1809-1810 November 28, 2002 Number 22
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Mergers of Teaching Hospitals in Boston, New York, and Northern California

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By John A. Kastor. 487 pp. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2001. $59.50. ISBN 0-472-11196-5.

Mergers and acquisitions are now such common subjects of discussion in our newspapers, on television, and in the country's larger law firms that they are hardly news any longer. The aim of a merger is to make something greater or stronger than the sum of its parts. What is newsworthy is that they may fail or be contested in the courts, and what is worrisome is that the world of business is littered with failed mergers. So it should come as no surprise that in the world of corporate medicine we have our own mergers to discuss or decry. In . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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