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Ron Spurgeon's health began to unravel when he hurt his shoulder doing yard work. He eventually wound up at Redding Medical Center in northern California, where a cardiologist told him he had a life-threatening heart condition. Four days later, he had triple bypass surgery.
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Restrictions on heavy lifting as a consequence of the incision in his breastbone led the robust 56-year-old to give up his job maintaining machinery at lumber mills.
In 2003, two years after his operation, Spurgeon learned that Tenet Healthcare, the hospital's owner, had paid $54 million to settle U.S. government allegations that it billed Medicare for ...