Lessons for us all in story of an undocumented hospital patient February 5, 2008 Galveston County Daily News, Feb. 5, 2008 Becoming undocumented isn't simply a matter of citizenship status. In his Medicine and Health column, Howard Brody relates the case of a Michigan woman who is taken to an ER and is denied treatment because she didn't have her insurance card with her. The result: she died. (Link unavailable.) « Back | The Newsroom »