I've always admired your work I also enjoyed and agreed with everything you wrote except for the ANTIFA angle This doesn't sound like them at all I would be interested to know why you suggested them
Antifa (/ænˈtiːfə, ˈæntifə/) is a left-wing anti-fascist and anti-racist political movement in the United States. It consists of a highly decentralized array of autonomous groups that use nonviolent direct action, incivility, or violence to achieve their aims.
I am going to say this does look like a professional job which would be someone paid money That doesn't sound like ANTIFA in the least
It also doesn't sound like a disgruntled customer unless they had to also be a professional assassin.
It could be someone in corporate board rooms There is a lot of money at stake in these hearings
But let me throw another interesting twist at you. This guy and his wife were separated Who knows why She also said he was receiving threats I don't read anywhere the police or company are confirming this
If the company knew why wouldn't they hire security At he least why wouldn't he hire security If this were you and you were worth millions wouldn't you And even though they were separated wouldn't you hire security for your wife I mean he supposedly told her about the threats
She could easily hire a hit man, especially if she were really pissed He had to have a very large insurance package and may even have a key man package Plus anything else (millions he has elsewhere)
This wouldn't be the first time it has happened
No, I am not a conspiracy theorist I'm 180 I do believe in the JFK conspiracy but not very many others
Well who knows. You could be right ... it could be a Parallax view thing. But the fat that they're looking at a guy in a hostel .. and he wrote what appear to be anti insurance commentary on the bullets.
I 100% agree. I have to question the objectivity of anyone making such a bizarre suggestion. To my knowledge, Antifa isn't (and has never been) in the assignation business. Even if they were, I can't see this guy making it to the top of their enemies list.
What goes around comes around. That CEO padded his over $10 million per year earnings off thousands of elderly customers who died after UHC denied critical health benefits those persons paid UHC for. UHC used an AI program that was intentionally programmed to deny 90% of elderly persons (65 or over) claims. Numerous lawsuits filed against UHC by dead customers relatives and State Attorneys General.
Then, let's look at the the $22 million UHC paid to hackers as ransom after they allowed hackers into their swiss cheese secured computer system earlier this year. This also allowed the hackers to steal the personal information of millions of its customers - including me - to the dark web. UHC was required by law to notify its customers as soon as it learned of the data breach. They still haven't notified me. I had to learn about it months later from an on-line news story. Numerous lawsuits filed by persons financially harmed by UHC's breach.
I've personally spent hours of wasted time on the phone with their customer service continually being passed around with no answers or resolution to problems. When I complained to UHC that I was going to sue them for not recognizing a Surrogate Court Judge's Order granting me Guardianship over my daughter for all Health Care matters including access to her UHC online information - after UHC had already acknowledged receipt of & approved the Court's Letters of my Guardianship.... UHC retaliated by placing a red flag on my insurance that falsely indicated my disabled daughter was not eligible for Medicaid - Medicaid she was then receiving and continues to receive & be eligible for according to the state agency that approved & continues to approve annually Medicaid for her
That red flag has prevented me from switching my daughter to another more law -abiding, less greedy, less incompetent health insurer. When my HI broker applied for a new Plan offered by another health insurance co. for 2025, that other health insurance co. erroneously rejected my broker's application for my daughter for not being eligible under Medicaid. So UHC is now illegally preventing its customers from switching to other Health Insurer's plans after violating my court ordered Guardianship rights to oversee my daughter's health care.
UHC's Greed Over People Policies are the poster child for why all Health Insurance in the USA should be run by non-profits!
Wow! What a horrendous story! My sympathies to you and your daughter. I also have a UHC plan - AARP United Health Care Medicare G supplement plan, which I was assured when I signed up, was a great supplement plan. Fortunately, I'm very healthy and haven't used it for anything but my annual physical and routine tests and 2 generic Rxs. Given this info, I'm now very worried and thinking of switching plans.
Thank you for your empathy. My daughter should be okay. My wife says much the same thing about HI plans: "The best plan is the one you don't have to use". Many of the largest HI co.s have been sued for using AI to deny benefits. As you may know Dec. 7th is the last day to submit an application for 2025 HI plans - unless you live in certain states like NY that allow by law exceptions mid-term. There is one local HI co. here in upstate NY - MVP that has been good. It seems the bigger they are the more self-serving they become. UHC keeps harassing us by phone to attempt to have a home nurse come into our house. My HI broker says they are only doing that because when they are audited by the feds, the number of home health visits increases their evaluation score.
Hey Linda, I have the same plan. I had a very expensive operation covered by Medicare earlier this year. As the EOBs started to roll in I could see that the UHCsupplement was chipping in their parsimonious contribution. Honestly I have not gotten additional bills. I rather think it’s partly a big game of over-charging to net a certain payout that the healthcare institution is willing to accept.
Greetings. A health reform advocate/activist here. I agree with all that you've said AND ask you please to be fully honest and transparent with the American people. For the countries that have fully socialized healthcare without the middlemen profiteers, what is their tax rate? And what would the tax rate need to be here in order to cover everyone's care? Don't get me wrong. I have an idea of what those numbers are like, and I am willing to pay my share including to take care of others, for the peace of mind of my own and my loved ones' care. And it's the right thing to do. But let's be fully honest and transparent about what this means.
Agree. They are high. I lived in those countries and I do think they are generally less angry. But yes many hate the higher taxes. The French especially but complain about everything…
Thank you. Again, I am definitely willing to pay my fair share including and even if it's mostly to help taking care of others. I just think if we ever have a chance of getting to publicly funded, non-profit universal healthcare in the U.S. we have to crunch the numbers and be honest about what it will cost. I have to believe most (?many, ?some) can handle the facts. Reminds me of Churchill's (attributed) quote "Americans always do the right thing. After trying everything else."
“Did you know United Health Care’s C-suite was under DOJ investigation for insider trading?”
Yes, as a matter of fact — with bonus points for having followed the dark satire of YouTuber “Dr. Glaucomflecken” who’s posted numerous videos targeting UnitedHealthCare as well as health insurance generally.
Meanwhile, Nina, to me the biggest political “freak show” in the US is the obscene billions that have been sent to Ukraine by the present Administration with this week’s 725 million “cherry on top.” Just imagine, if you will, how much healthcare coverage that could have provided.
Only thing I can imagine that is worse than the US health care system is the caste system in India. Twenty yrs ago I was invited to Portugal for a 15 minute lecture at some medical conference. I was paid $5,000 and told not to thank anyone, air fare, hotel and other expenses cost Big Pharm an additional $5,000. MD frnd told me I was underpaid as I was but a anthropologist and a 'real MD.
This piece unnecessarily politicizes the assassination. this was simply a disgruntled policy holder. It is beyond the pale to somehow blame this on those Ms. Burleigh disagrees with politically., this is really an embarrassing piece.
The killer wrote these words on a cartridge he left behind at the crime scene.
Having sued many Fortune 500 companies over the years, I can assure you that "deny, delay, depose" remains the standard for the defense bar. They admit nothing, not even the time of day. They file endless motions to delay the suits filed against them. And they depose everyone, especially the plaintiff, with endless repetitive questions designed not to discover the truth but to exhaust and entrap the plaintiff and obscure the defendant's wrongful conduct.
Kinda like a Republican political media campaign
The killer is either a talented assassin or a victim of insurance fraud. I favor the former.
Like Jack Ruby and his "adorable dogs in the car," the shooter knows how to construct an alibi, or, at least, reasonable doubt.
I'm sorry but I'm going to have a difficult time mustering any sympathy for this garbage human. Yes, it's sad for his family but they've been living high on the hog at the expense of United's clients for long enough. Health insurance execs and their lobbyists are the biggest obstacle to a decent healthcare system in the US. They "contribute" (i.e., bribe) politicians (in BOTH parties) to vote down any healthcare reform that might cost these companies a dime. They get rich while We the People deal with this joke of a healthcare system. Nope, no sympathy for this prick or any other c-suite fat cats that get bumped off in the near future.
Fairly decent article, but the writer has no knowledge of what a "right" is. A right is something one has naturally: life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Rights cannot be "things" such as education and healthcare as they would REQUIRE someone else to provide the service to you. Once you get this straight, then you can piss and moan all you want....but look at what healthcare was BEFORE Medicare and Medicaid when people actually paid for their own healthcare vs having a third party pay for it....I live in France now...have "free" healthcare, but it is not free and is rationed by time and a tax/welfare system which is hidden..... Learn about markets and one will know better than to call healthcare a right....
Thanks. I kind of feel like you're mansplaining libertarian capitalism here. I get it. Markets uber alles. But if you agree that "life" is a "right" then so is health care.
Health is a right. Healthcare is merely the means by which that right is exercised. And if you are limiting "rights" to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, are you going to argue that health is not embedded in the right to life, or the right to liberty, or the right to the pursuit of happiness, none of which can be actualised without health??? Also, I find your tone to be condescending. Like you, I live in a country (Canada) that has universal health care -- it is indeed not free, it is paid for through our tax dollars. It used to be an excellent and indeed universal entitlement, however as parts of it have been increasingly privatised under conservative provincial governments, the poor are now being sidelined from health care services, just as they are in the US. I suspect you can afford to pay for your own healthcare, and that makes you very fortunate. But most of your fellow Americans aren't so lucky.
My reading is that you should not be lecturing others about things you don't understand. A "right" is whatever we declare it to be. There are "natural" rights and defined rights. We have decided that education is a right in the US, but for some reason (profit!) we haven't yet decided to make healthcare a right. This nonsense idea that calling something a right unreasonably requires someone else to provide you with a service that they would not otherwise be inclined to provide is a talking point straight out of Ayn Rand's Big Book of Bull$hit.
And you think healthcare is not rationed in the United States, where tens of million of people have no coverage or swiss-cheese policies so freighted with copays, deductibles, and out-of-pocket costs that tens of thousands of Americans die each year from lack of timely access to medical care? No one in France or anywhere else in the industrialized world is forced to choose between paying the rent or going to the doctor. Healthcare is deemed a necessary social service, like police and fire protection. I'd like to see you in your libertarian "paradise" being asked to show your fire-insurance card before the firefighter will turn on the hose--and have him refuse while your house burns down if you can't afford the copay. I assume that you don't favor the privatization of the police and fire departments, but somehow you think something as essential to life as healthcare should be subject to private extortion rackets.
Another cry of anguish from the Taylor Lorenz school of revenge -Former WaPo reporter says 'we want these executives dead' after murder of health insurance CEO.
She claims she's "immunocompromised" so arguing for murder is OK?
No one likes insurance companies. Our health care system is a mess so one argument is we need socialist system - see Great Britain.
Violence is never an acceptable or justifiable solution to any problem, regardless of the individual or group involved. The idea of murder—whether of a health care executive, a politician, or anyone else—is a deeply troubling and morally indefensible response to disagreements or frustrations.
While it's not uncommon for people to feel anger, especially when it comes to industries like health care where profit motives can sometimes conflict with patient well-being, it’s critical that we address those issues through peaceful, constructive means. Disagreements about health care systems, corporate practices, or government policies should be met with dialogue, activism, and legal frameworks, not violence.
Public frustration with health care executives, particularly in large for-profit companies, is often driven by systemic issues like high premiums, denial of coverage, or inequities in access to care. While these are valid concerns that deserve attention, the solution lies in policy reform, activism, and community organizing—not in acts of violence.
It’s also important to remember that individuals in leadership roles, including executives, are part of broader systems and should be held accountable through legal, ethical, and democratic processes rather than personal harm. Advocating for peaceful change, through avenues like voting, protesting, and supporting health care reforms, is the only justifiable course of action.
This story says a lot about the integrity of the health insurance industry!!! Also, it says lots about the negative uses of technology (AI particularly) in today’s world! The comparison of our healthcare system with the European system is very revealing as well! The real issue we face is corporate greed, I think! Looks like that’s going to get worse with the new administration!
"The assassination of health insurance CEO Brian Thompson outside the New York Hilton at dawn, while undeniably horrifying and tragic, especially for his friends and family, feels like lancing a boil." I hear, playing in the background, a song from "Chicago." "He had it coming!"
Also, and maybe ... he and his wife had been separated for years. She's quite attractive -- and now she is rich. Just sayin'.
As for Harley Street medicine, I must say I was a fan years ago. Loved the doctor. Parked in London while then- husband was filming, I became quite ill. Sir Anthony Dawson was recommended by a British friend of my mother's, and, to my surprise, he was known as "the Queen's bowel doctor." So there.
Nina
I've always admired your work I also enjoyed and agreed with everything you wrote except for the ANTIFA angle This doesn't sound like them at all I would be interested to know why you suggested them
Antifa (/ænˈtiːfə, ˈæntifə/) is a left-wing anti-fascist and anti-racist political movement in the United States. It consists of a highly decentralized array of autonomous groups that use nonviolent direct action, incivility, or violence to achieve their aims.
I am going to say this does look like a professional job which would be someone paid money That doesn't sound like ANTIFA in the least
It also doesn't sound like a disgruntled customer unless they had to also be a professional assassin.
It could be someone in corporate board rooms There is a lot of money at stake in these hearings
But let me throw another interesting twist at you. This guy and his wife were separated Who knows why She also said he was receiving threats I don't read anywhere the police or company are confirming this
If the company knew why wouldn't they hire security At he least why wouldn't he hire security If this were you and you were worth millions wouldn't you And even though they were separated wouldn't you hire security for your wife I mean he supposedly told her about the threats
She could easily hire a hit man, especially if she were really pissed He had to have a very large insurance package and may even have a key man package Plus anything else (millions he has elsewhere)
This wouldn't be the first time it has happened
No, I am not a conspiracy theorist I'm 180 I do believe in the JFK conspiracy but not very many others
Well who knows. You could be right ... it could be a Parallax view thing. But the fat that they're looking at a guy in a hostel .. and he wrote what appear to be anti insurance commentary on the bullets.
I 100% agree. I have to question the objectivity of anyone making such a bizarre suggestion. To my knowledge, Antifa isn't (and has never been) in the assignation business. Even if they were, I can't see this guy making it to the top of their enemies list.
What goes around comes around. That CEO padded his over $10 million per year earnings off thousands of elderly customers who died after UHC denied critical health benefits those persons paid UHC for. UHC used an AI program that was intentionally programmed to deny 90% of elderly persons (65 or over) claims. Numerous lawsuits filed against UHC by dead customers relatives and State Attorneys General.
Then, let's look at the the $22 million UHC paid to hackers as ransom after they allowed hackers into their swiss cheese secured computer system earlier this year. This also allowed the hackers to steal the personal information of millions of its customers - including me - to the dark web. UHC was required by law to notify its customers as soon as it learned of the data breach. They still haven't notified me. I had to learn about it months later from an on-line news story. Numerous lawsuits filed by persons financially harmed by UHC's breach.
I've personally spent hours of wasted time on the phone with their customer service continually being passed around with no answers or resolution to problems. When I complained to UHC that I was going to sue them for not recognizing a Surrogate Court Judge's Order granting me Guardianship over my daughter for all Health Care matters including access to her UHC online information - after UHC had already acknowledged receipt of & approved the Court's Letters of my Guardianship.... UHC retaliated by placing a red flag on my insurance that falsely indicated my disabled daughter was not eligible for Medicaid - Medicaid she was then receiving and continues to receive & be eligible for according to the state agency that approved & continues to approve annually Medicaid for her
That red flag has prevented me from switching my daughter to another more law -abiding, less greedy, less incompetent health insurer. When my HI broker applied for a new Plan offered by another health insurance co. for 2025, that other health insurance co. erroneously rejected my broker's application for my daughter for not being eligible under Medicaid. So UHC is now illegally preventing its customers from switching to other Health Insurer's plans after violating my court ordered Guardianship rights to oversee my daughter's health care.
UHC's Greed Over People Policies are the poster child for why all Health Insurance in the USA should be run by non-profits!
Wow! What a horrendous story! My sympathies to you and your daughter. I also have a UHC plan - AARP United Health Care Medicare G supplement plan, which I was assured when I signed up, was a great supplement plan. Fortunately, I'm very healthy and haven't used it for anything but my annual physical and routine tests and 2 generic Rxs. Given this info, I'm now very worried and thinking of switching plans.
Thank you for your empathy. My daughter should be okay. My wife says much the same thing about HI plans: "The best plan is the one you don't have to use". Many of the largest HI co.s have been sued for using AI to deny benefits. As you may know Dec. 7th is the last day to submit an application for 2025 HI plans - unless you live in certain states like NY that allow by law exceptions mid-term. There is one local HI co. here in upstate NY - MVP that has been good. It seems the bigger they are the more self-serving they become. UHC keeps harassing us by phone to attempt to have a home nurse come into our house. My HI broker says they are only doing that because when they are audited by the feds, the number of home health visits increases their evaluation score.
Hey Linda, I have the same plan. I had a very expensive operation covered by Medicare earlier this year. As the EOBs started to roll in I could see that the UHCsupplement was chipping in their parsimonious contribution. Honestly I have not gotten additional bills. I rather think it’s partly a big game of over-charging to net a certain payout that the healthcare institution is willing to accept.
Greetings. A health reform advocate/activist here. I agree with all that you've said AND ask you please to be fully honest and transparent with the American people. For the countries that have fully socialized healthcare without the middlemen profiteers, what is their tax rate? And what would the tax rate need to be here in order to cover everyone's care? Don't get me wrong. I have an idea of what those numbers are like, and I am willing to pay my share including to take care of others, for the peace of mind of my own and my loved ones' care. And it's the right thing to do. But let's be fully honest and transparent about what this means.
Agree. They are high. I lived in those countries and I do think they are generally less angry. But yes many hate the higher taxes. The French especially but complain about everything…
Thank you. Again, I am definitely willing to pay my fair share including and even if it's mostly to help taking care of others. I just think if we ever have a chance of getting to publicly funded, non-profit universal healthcare in the U.S. we have to crunch the numbers and be honest about what it will cost. I have to believe most (?many, ?some) can handle the facts. Reminds me of Churchill's (attributed) quote "Americans always do the right thing. After trying everything else."
“Did you know United Health Care’s C-suite was under DOJ investigation for insider trading?”
Yes, as a matter of fact — with bonus points for having followed the dark satire of YouTuber “Dr. Glaucomflecken” who’s posted numerous videos targeting UnitedHealthCare as well as health insurance generally.
Meanwhile, Nina, to me the biggest political “freak show” in the US is the obscene billions that have been sent to Ukraine by the present Administration with this week’s 725 million “cherry on top.” Just imagine, if you will, how much healthcare coverage that could have provided.
Agree
I hadn't heard the hostel information
The words could be a red herring, or not. They are pretty commonly known
More will be revealed
Indeed
Only thing I can imagine that is worse than the US health care system is the caste system in India. Twenty yrs ago I was invited to Portugal for a 15 minute lecture at some medical conference. I was paid $5,000 and told not to thank anyone, air fare, hotel and other expenses cost Big Pharm an additional $5,000. MD frnd told me I was underpaid as I was but a anthropologist and a 'real MD.
This piece unnecessarily politicizes the assassination. this was simply a disgruntled policy holder. It is beyond the pale to somehow blame this on those Ms. Burleigh disagrees with politically., this is really an embarrassing piece.
"Deny, delay, depose..."
The killer wrote these words on a cartridge he left behind at the crime scene.
Having sued many Fortune 500 companies over the years, I can assure you that "deny, delay, depose" remains the standard for the defense bar. They admit nothing, not even the time of day. They file endless motions to delay the suits filed against them. And they depose everyone, especially the plaintiff, with endless repetitive questions designed not to discover the truth but to exhaust and entrap the plaintiff and obscure the defendant's wrongful conduct.
Kinda like a Republican political media campaign
The killer is either a talented assassin or a victim of insurance fraud. I favor the former.
Like Jack Ruby and his "adorable dogs in the car," the shooter knows how to construct an alibi, or, at least, reasonable doubt.
I'm sorry but I'm going to have a difficult time mustering any sympathy for this garbage human. Yes, it's sad for his family but they've been living high on the hog at the expense of United's clients for long enough. Health insurance execs and their lobbyists are the biggest obstacle to a decent healthcare system in the US. They "contribute" (i.e., bribe) politicians (in BOTH parties) to vote down any healthcare reform that might cost these companies a dime. They get rich while We the People deal with this joke of a healthcare system. Nope, no sympathy for this prick or any other c-suite fat cats that get bumped off in the near future.
Fairly decent article, but the writer has no knowledge of what a "right" is. A right is something one has naturally: life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Rights cannot be "things" such as education and healthcare as they would REQUIRE someone else to provide the service to you. Once you get this straight, then you can piss and moan all you want....but look at what healthcare was BEFORE Medicare and Medicaid when people actually paid for their own healthcare vs having a third party pay for it....I live in France now...have "free" healthcare, but it is not free and is rationed by time and a tax/welfare system which is hidden..... Learn about markets and one will know better than to call healthcare a right....
Thanks. I kind of feel like you're mansplaining libertarian capitalism here. I get it. Markets uber alles. But if you agree that "life" is a "right" then so is health care.
Amen to that!
Health is a right. Healthcare is merely the means by which that right is exercised. And if you are limiting "rights" to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, are you going to argue that health is not embedded in the right to life, or the right to liberty, or the right to the pursuit of happiness, none of which can be actualised without health??? Also, I find your tone to be condescending. Like you, I live in a country (Canada) that has universal health care -- it is indeed not free, it is paid for through our tax dollars. It used to be an excellent and indeed universal entitlement, however as parts of it have been increasingly privatised under conservative provincial governments, the poor are now being sidelined from health care services, just as they are in the US. I suspect you can afford to pay for your own healthcare, and that makes you very fortunate. But most of your fellow Americans aren't so lucky.
What Carol said.
My reading is that you should not be lecturing others about things you don't understand. A "right" is whatever we declare it to be. There are "natural" rights and defined rights. We have decided that education is a right in the US, but for some reason (profit!) we haven't yet decided to make healthcare a right. This nonsense idea that calling something a right unreasonably requires someone else to provide you with a service that they would not otherwise be inclined to provide is a talking point straight out of Ayn Rand's Big Book of Bull$hit.
And you think healthcare is not rationed in the United States, where tens of million of people have no coverage or swiss-cheese policies so freighted with copays, deductibles, and out-of-pocket costs that tens of thousands of Americans die each year from lack of timely access to medical care? No one in France or anywhere else in the industrialized world is forced to choose between paying the rent or going to the doctor. Healthcare is deemed a necessary social service, like police and fire protection. I'd like to see you in your libertarian "paradise" being asked to show your fire-insurance card before the firefighter will turn on the hose--and have him refuse while your house burns down if you can't afford the copay. I assume that you don't favor the privatization of the police and fire departments, but somehow you think something as essential to life as healthcare should be subject to private extortion rackets.
I second what Carol said.
typo, not a real MD.
Sorry to say... Only one? How about a baker's dozen? Sorry for his demise.
Jesus?
Another cry of anguish from the Taylor Lorenz school of revenge -Former WaPo reporter says 'we want these executives dead' after murder of health insurance CEO.
She claims she's "immunocompromised" so arguing for murder is OK?
No one likes insurance companies. Our health care system is a mess so one argument is we need socialist system - see Great Britain.
Violence is never an acceptable or justifiable solution to any problem, regardless of the individual or group involved. The idea of murder—whether of a health care executive, a politician, or anyone else—is a deeply troubling and morally indefensible response to disagreements or frustrations.
While it's not uncommon for people to feel anger, especially when it comes to industries like health care where profit motives can sometimes conflict with patient well-being, it’s critical that we address those issues through peaceful, constructive means. Disagreements about health care systems, corporate practices, or government policies should be met with dialogue, activism, and legal frameworks, not violence.
Public frustration with health care executives, particularly in large for-profit companies, is often driven by systemic issues like high premiums, denial of coverage, or inequities in access to care. While these are valid concerns that deserve attention, the solution lies in policy reform, activism, and community organizing—not in acts of violence.
It’s also important to remember that individuals in leadership roles, including executives, are part of broader systems and should be held accountable through legal, ethical, and democratic processes rather than personal harm. Advocating for peaceful change, through avenues like voting, protesting, and supporting health care reforms, is the only justifiable course of action.
This story says a lot about the integrity of the health insurance industry!!! Also, it says lots about the negative uses of technology (AI particularly) in today’s world! The comparison of our healthcare system with the European system is very revealing as well! The real issue we face is corporate greed, I think! Looks like that’s going to get worse with the new administration!
"The assassination of health insurance CEO Brian Thompson outside the New York Hilton at dawn, while undeniably horrifying and tragic, especially for his friends and family, feels like lancing a boil." I hear, playing in the background, a song from "Chicago." "He had it coming!"
Also, and maybe ... he and his wife had been separated for years. She's quite attractive -- and now she is rich. Just sayin'.
As for Harley Street medicine, I must say I was a fan years ago. Loved the doctor. Parked in London while then- husband was filming, I became quite ill. Sir Anthony Dawson was recommended by a British friend of my mother's, and, to my surprise, he was known as "the Queen's bowel doctor." So there.