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Dave was quickly processed into the hospital system and assigned to the nano-med ward. And yes, he had to fill out another small mountain of hospital forms and releases. Including forms for the fees and charges, much higher than the first ones since his surgery was going to cost so much more than Ms. Clementine's treatment and hospital stay.

Unknown to him the facilities for the hospital's cutting edge nano-med technology that would be used to heal his hands were actually under-used. The hospital administrators were concerned they may have made a poor investment and would not make a profit from the investment.

The new technology itself was superlative and very effective. But, it was prohibitively expensive and most of the cases it was used for could be treated with older less expensive methods and procedures.