![]() ![]() After some discussion, the police let him enter the crime scene and attend to the victim. “He’s pretty much dead.” She called a physician, Jeffrey Brenner, who lived a few doors up the street, and he ran to the scene with a stethoscope and a pocket ventilation mask. “He’s not going to make it,” an officer reportedly told the physical therapist. ![]() A neighborhood couple, a physical therapist and a volunteer firefighter, approached to see if they could help, but police waved them back. The victim lay motionless in the street beside the open door on the driver’s side, as if the car had ejected him. At nine-fifty on a February night in 2001, a twenty-two-year-old black man was shot while driving his Ford Taurus station wagon through a neighborhood on the edge of the Rutgers University campus. If Camden, New Jersey, becomes the first American community to lower its medical costs, it will have a murder to thank. In Camden, New Jersey, one per cent of patients account for a third of the city’s medical costs. ![]()
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