GILMAN DEFENDS UT SOUTHWESTERN SPENDING

Please see "UT Southwestern VP Serves Local Media Some Whine and 'Poppycock'" in the 5/1/08 on-line edition of the Dallas Observer.  An excerpt:

A couple of weeks back, we pointed your attention to an essay in the subscription-only Chronicle of Philanthropy, in which Pablo Eisenberg, a senior fellow at the Georgetown University Public Policy Institute, insisted that the Dallas media hadn't gone far enough in their reporting on UT Southwestern Medical Center's treatment of its VIPs. Well, today, UT Southwestern -- specifically, Alfred G. Gilman, its executive vice president for academic affairs and provost -- replies with a 1,742-word defense and dismissal.