Keith Smith, an anesthesiologist in Oklahoma City, and his colleague Steven Lantier finally decided enough was enough. The hospital where they worked was price gouging patients, and the two doctors knew it.
“We felt like we were accomplices,” Smith told Straight Arrow News. “We were anesthetizing patients that were going to be facing a real financial hardship after even a minor surgery.”
It was 1997, the year of Tamagotchis and “Titanic” and the first babies of Generation Z. For Smith and Lantier, the year marked a major turning point…