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Share January 27, 2021, 10:10 PM The columnist, a Los Angeles freelancer, is a former Detroit News business reporter who blogs at Starkman Approved. By Eric Starkman Richard Curbelo and fiancée Connie Strong To the visiting NorthStar Anesthesia staff attending to Richard Curbelo last Thursday, he was just another patient, one of about eight to 10 they’d sedate that day working in Beaumont Royal Oak’s ground-floor endoscopy suite.  To Connie Strong, a mental health profe...

Share January 27, 2021, 10:10 PM The columnist, a Los Angeles freelancer, is a former Detroit News business reporter who blogs at Starkman Approved. By Eric Starkman Richard Curbelo and fiancée Connie Strong To the visiting NorthStar Anesthesia staff attending to Richard Curbelo last Thursday, he was just another patient, one of about eight to 10 they’d sedate that day working in Beaumont Royal Oak’s ground-floor endoscopy suite.  To Connie Strong, a mental health profe...

Share January 25, 2021, 9:29 PM The columnist, a Los Angeles freelancer, is a former Detroit News business reporter who blogs at Starkman Approved. By Eric Starkman The inevitable tragedy Beaumont Health chairman John Lewis and Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel were warned about occurred last Thursday in the early afternoon: A 51-year-old man walked into the colonoscopy suite at Beaumont’s flagship Royal Oak hospital at 13 and Woodward thinking he’d be undergoing a ...

A member of the Beaumont Health Board The writer, a Los Angeles freelancer, is a former Detroit News business reporter who blogs at Starkman Approved. By Eric Starkman Hannibul, the Detroit Zoo ostrich (Zoo photo) Reading the Beaumont Health coverage of Crain’s Detroit Business these days brings back fond memories of my favorite childhood game “Treasure Hunt” – there’s always a gem or two hidden inside. Glossed over in the Beaumont story Crain’s posted Tuesday was this golden nu...

Share December 13, 2020, 6:38 PM The writer, a Los Angeles freelancer, is a former Detroit News business reporter who blogs at Starkman Approved. By Eric Starkman In the six months I’ve been writing damning stories about Beaumont Health CEO John Fox and his despicable deputies COO Carolyn Wilson, chief medical officer David Wood Jr., CFO John Kerndl and chief bill collector Denise Waters, a question has been nagging: How is it that I know nothing about the CEO of rival Henr...

Share December 09, 2020, 9:10 PM The writer, a Los Angeles freelancer, is a former Detroit News business reporter who blogs at Starkman Approved. By Eric Starkman  John Fox Despite a cacophony of calls from doctors and donors calling for his resignation and accusations that he’s compromised patient care, Beaumont Health CEO John Fox declared he will remain in his job “at least” two more years. The remarkable disclosure was buried at the bottom of a lengthy Crain’...