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Essay winners talk of struggle to give care, get care with cost in mind

By Chelsea Conaboy

 |  Globe Staff  

  January 18, 2012

Four winners have been selected in the Cost of Care essay contest aimed at promoting awareness among patients and providers about how much health care costs. Dr. Neel Shah, director of Cost of Care, said in an e-mail that the contest received more than 100 entries. Among the winners, each of whom won $1,000, was Dr. Andrew Schutzbank, a hospitalist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, who wrote about a patient in her 70s named Peggy who could not be discharged from an expensive cardiac care unit.

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