My latest post is up on the Highmark West Penn Allegheny Health System merger and UPMC's response. You can see a discussion of it by KDKA's Jon Delano (Franklin Delano Roosevelt's cousin, where he tries to sugarcoat it) here and the full discussion at the link below.
Highmark/UPMC Tussle | Healthcare 4 All PA Education Fund
My occupation is a statistician. I tell people it is like "CSI without dead bodies" because analyzing a set of data that has been collected is like doing an autopsy on a deceased person in the sense that I'm trying to learn what I can from what statistics and information are available. Except in this case the information does not involve gross things. For me the research process can be humorous, scary, but always captivating.
