Josh Eidelson kicks some petrini ass with this great YDN guest column this morning.

Petrini's is a clever rhetorical trick and a shameful political smear: Paint whoever stalls your chosen development approach as soft on cancer. The hospital owes all of us – most of all, those neighbors whose quality of life is affected by every hospital expansion – more candor and less bluster. The hospital's concerned neighbors, who want to see cancer treated as much as anyone, deserve an honest dialogue about the impact of the hospital's plans on their access to jobs, housing and health care.