Confronting the ghosts haunting healthcare in North Carolina

Confronting the ghosts haunting healthcare in North Carolina

In Stephen King’s book “The Shining,” a father brings an empty wasp’s nest into a haunted hotel and places it next to his sleeping child.  As you might expect, that doesn’t work out great for anyone. As Cardinal & Pine this week formally wraps up its Bad Medicine series, an in-depth look at the state of healthcare in North Carolina, I keep thinking about how often children suffer the most immediate consequences of adults’ bad choices. My colleag…