A 12-year-old boy fell ill and was rushed to the hospital. The ER doctor detected no pulse on the child and declared him dead. The boy's family arranged a funeral for him. During the funeral, people heard a knocking sound coming from the coffin. At first, they thought it was a ghost's doing. One man was brave enough to get close to the coffin; he determined that there was something inside. People opened the coffin and discovered the boy still alive. When his family filed a complaint against the hospital, the chief doctor blamed it on faulty equipment and called for better funding.
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To turn around his sagging business, a family physician came up with a plan to encourage patients insured by the state to visit his clinic for treatment. He paid patients $15 per visit. The scheme worked incredibly well and the number of visits quadrupled. As the state's insurance agency experienced a massive surge in the number of claims from the same physician, they became worried there might be a major health epidemic in the area served by the doctor. The agency hastily reported the epidemic to health authorities.