The Good Dr. Z

WBZ's Jordan Rich says this doctor has never turned away a patient due to their inability to pay. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome to the Upside with Jordan A dose

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of good news, because it's a big world out there.
He's affectionately known as doctor Z, doctor Michael Zollikoffer, who's
been helping to heal people for decades in Baltimore, Maryland.
He's never led a patient's ability to pay interfere with
his dedication to care. Recently, the healer was diagnosed with cancer,
and due to some bureaucratic snaffoos, his health insurance plan

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failed him and refused to cover the cost of radiation treatments.
But the old motto that kindness comes full circle is
definitely in play. When a group of patients found out
that he was in need, they launched a go fundme campaign,
the goal to make sure that doctor Z gets the
care that he needs and that he has certainly earned.
So far, they've raised more than two hundred and thirty
thousand dollars to get the job done. As one longtime

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patient said, doctor Z will never give up on you,
so we darned sure aren't giving up on him. Good
luck to doctor Z and that's the upside with Jordan. WBZ,
Boston's news radio