Not with a bang but with a whimper

This is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsNot with a bang but with a whimper     -- T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Men, 1925Those across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania who lived through the disaster known as AHERF, the story of the Allegheny Health and Education Research Foundation, ending in one of the biggest non-profit health care bankruptcies in US history, may now note in passing the death some months ago--just recently announced--of its architect, one Sherif Abdelhak.Many books and articles have been written about this hubristic exercise in go-go corporatism. It was a fiasco that left many endowments decimated and the remnants of two Philadelphia medical schools in shreds.For those who lived through that era, the death of "the sheriff" is bittersweet. It has passed virtually unnoticed until now. But it's worth remarking, not just for its local but also its national meaning. By the high-rolling mid-1990s, tellingly, the Association of American Medical College's prestigious Cooper Lectureship led through the following roster. Here is the list for the decade commencing 1985 and leading to its 1995 apogee1985 John A. D. Cooper1986 Paul B. Beeson1987 Uwe E. Reinhardt1988 Henry G. Cisneros1989 Lauro F. Cavazos1990 John F. Sherman1991 Margaret Catley-Carlson1992 Leroy Hood1993 Bruce M. Alberts1994 Merwyn R. Greenlick1995 Sherif S. AbdelhakA nice progression. Three years later, in 1998, AHERF and Allegheny Univ...
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