Alarming internal probes found chemo errors, delays, and ‘toxic’ leadership by Penn State’s cancer chief

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One morning in May 2023, a hospital employee opened her email and read through a woman’s complaint about how her husband’s cancer care was deteriorating. A senior administrator had forwarded the message with a terse note: “Another one.”