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Wife dies but new hospital bills keep coming
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, May 6, 2008
Since September, Melanie Smailus' husband has been fighting to deal with not only his grief after her death from leukemia, but also a pricey medical bill that won't go away. The bill that Thomas Smailus keeps getting is for a procedure that the medical bureaucracy insists took place four months after his wife died.
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