Your editorial column "Closed Doors" was patently ridiculous. According to Mapquest Shands at AGH and Shands at UF are 1.42 miles apart. I hardly think a three-minute travel time will result in "cutting off access to those in need" and your hysterically dire predictions for infant mortality, STDs, homicide deaths, economic decline, crime, etc.
Of course, as a nonprofit corporation, Shands will indeed redirect "savings" back into the community. For the record, I am a Shands at UF employee, but am not in on business decisions. If I was, Pediatrics wouldn't have been moved to AGH and back again.
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