Volume 23, Number 14 · September 16, 1976

The Battle of Lenox Hill

By Robert Craft

Thursday, July 1. Will the efficiency of a highest-rated New York hospital be seriously affected by the general paralysis of the Bicentennial Independence Day? This afternoon I enter Lenox Hill for 'hernia repair' with increasing qualms, not about a possibly unfavorable answer to this question but about the limits of newspaper assignments and whether this one is going too far. I am not an 'action reporter,' after all, and the surgery is postponable.



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