Working Hard for the Hardworking People of Connecticut

December 2018

Is UR’s Parallel Universe at a Crossroads?

The following is a summary of various accounts published in the on-line version of the Poughkeepsie Journal over the period of several years. Spyros Panos was an orthopedic surgeon at Mid-Hudson Medical Center in Poughkeepsie, New York. He was a billing machine, invoicing thirty-five millions from 2007 to 2011. On office days, he saw between sixty and ninety patients. On surgical days, he performed, on average, seventeen surgeries per 10-12 hour day. During that same 2007 to 2011 period, Mid-Hudson paid Panos 7.5 million dollars.