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Byline: Jackie Jadrnak Journal Staff Writer
Critics Feel Tax-Hike Spending Shorts Needy
More surgeons. Better pay for nurses. Expanded trauma care.
University of New Mexico Hospital is pointing to all this and more in a marketing campaign to tell taxpayers how it is spending their money.
But critics say the state's largest public hospital is spending too much on bricks and mortar and not enough to provide health care for the poor.
One example they cite is a case in which surgeons cut a hole in a man's head to relieve swelling after an accident. But they say the hospital's finance office refused to schedule a follow-up ...