"Is Bob And Steve's Most Excellent Adventure Destined To Become Randolph County's Nightmare On Fayetteville Street?"

That's a question my good friend, Buzz Armfield-of-the-Asheboro-Armfields-who-donated-one-million-dollars-to-Randolph-Hospital's-Cancer-Center asked this morning in an e-mail when he noted the Greensboro News & Record salivating all over the large donations two prominent Greensboro families made to expand the Moses Cone Healthcare System's regional cancer center.

The boys running Randolph have deferred to Moses Cone for years - to the point of trying to force RMA's "dime-a-dozen" Pediatricians to refer exclusively to Cone while I was there (which is ILLEGAL not that anyone in a position of state or Federal oversight ever cared) . . . and getting rid of me after I rescued a Cone-owned Family Practitioner "drifting" towards Neonatology in a fashion that almost cost a newborn baby her life (not that any of the oh-so-noble mill-town "honorables" charged with overseeing what Bob Morrison & Steve Eblin were doing ever wanted to know about that).

Now it seems like Cone is kicking Randolph in the teeth.  Are sick locals really going to flock to Randolph when institutions with much better reputations . . . like Cone . . . and Baptist . . . and UNC . . . and Duke are right up the road?

Maybe the Jones and the Tangers will get more for their dollars than just their family name modestly displayed by the front door. 

Of course, when you count Bob Morrison's "deferred compensation for 2008, one million Armfield dollars didn't really amount to a whole lot, and the hospital probably couldn't afford a bigger sign. 

Randolph had to pay the executive staff dontchaknow. 

Again, if you have questions about ANY of this, feel free to check out http://www.guidestar.org/.  Register (it's free).  Click on the "Documents" tab.  Then click on/peruse Randolph's last three IRS 990's (which most certainlywere NOT confidential back when Bob and Steve lied about the financial information on them being confidential during litigation).  Do your own math. 

And when you do, please e-mail me and give me your theories on why Bob Morrison, CEO of a small-town hospital . . . the guy who has literally driven good doctors out of town . . . the guy who wants someone else to house the far-less-flashy-than-a-cancer-center psych ward . . . merited $330,482 in "deferred compensation" in just ONE YEAR?

I'm thinking it's more likely you'll realize that I'm not the only one Bob has lied to and cheated.

The Armfield money certainly didn't save the jobs of all those "ordinary" hospital workers Bob laid off (because even as he counts his own dimes, he's so proactive about Randolph's future).

Meanwhile, there's a thread over at my Blogfather Ticker's where an ex-journalist drops the hint that while David Renfro's Courier Tribune was busy covering Bob Morrison's over-rated, over-paid butt, the Greensboro News & Record (for all of John Robinson's noble blather) was working overtime to shield Cone's. 

Lex Alexander, local left-of-left blogger and the N&R's former "medical reporter" (I use the term very loosely) . . . who, when he was "reporting" everything but my tale-of-woe, could never really hide that he was left-of-left . . . has dropped the bomb that he may have been threatened with termination by his superiors if he pursued the story. 

I say "may have" because Lex, being Lex, expects us to read his mind about what was happening behind the scenes at the N&R . . . and we're "delusional" if we let the FACTS (that he didn't investigate and didn't report the story of a fellow blogger who came to his precious ether begging for help) speak for themselves.

Our local newspapers have not told us the truth.  They sold us out.  Lies of omission are still lies. 

It's been a nightmare - and cost me dearly - on so many levels.  And it's cost the community.  One can only hope that as more people find themselves on the wrong end of one of Bob Morrison's executive decisions, Asheboro will wake up.