Hey there.

In October 2019, a few days before Halloween, I visited the General Sessions Courthouse in Memphis

where lawsuits get heard, with the journalist Wendy C. Thomas.

Wendy had spent a lot of time in that courthouse.

Over the course of more than a year, she had documented that the biggest hospital in town

had been suing thousands of patients over unpaid bills, including lots of its own badly paid

employees.

And Wendy's incredible work got results, when she published her story, that hospital

had actually dropped thousands of cases and promised not to file new ones.

That had been a few months before, but there were other hospitals, other medical groups,

still at it.

So there were cases to see.

Plenty of.

There was no recording allowed in the courtroom, but Wendy and I debriefed on the way out.

Yeah, things were moving so fast, I was like, I don't think I could take notes this

fast.

We'll go out there still.

Yeah.

I was going to try to time how quickly he was moving through the cases, but you know, probably

less than 10 seconds, just, yeah, per case.

Even counting into ones for people to show it up.

Yeah.

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