Tucson Weekly: Medicine Man (June 24 - June 30, 1999)
The Doctor Is In-For Now. By Chris Limberis IT WAS IN the depths of Pima County that Dr. Richard Carmona, the czar of the county's health system who has presided over a $14 million loss in the last year, made a surprising offer to his chief political benefactor, Democratic Supervisor Raul Grijalva. In the county's subterranean garage, Carmona told Grijalva--the conduit in the increasingly volatile relationship Carmona has with Sylvia Campoy, who heads the county's health care commission--that he would step down from his $190,500-a-year job. There, near the county's bottom, 12 floors beneath...