After he made no payments, Huguette eventually forgave the loan.
Jack Rudick, and his wife received more: nearly $1.17 million in gifts, and the doctor borrowed another $1 million. In all, Singman and his family received $867,951 in gifts over 20 years. When he broke his hip on a trip to Italy and needed an air ambulance, Huguette gave him $65,000. Henry Singman, alerted the brass that his patient "was quite wealthy, the scion of a multimillionaire copper industrialist." When the doctor told Huguette that it was costing him $20,000 to paint his house, a few days later she gave him a check for $20,000. A month into her stay, her internist, Dr. But repeatedly they came back to her for larger and larger donations. On New York's Upper East Side at Doctors Hospital, which became part of Beth Israel Medical Center, the hospital's doctors and managers could have discharged her after her skin cancer was cured.
When one of her round-the-clock private nurses kept urging her to move back home, Huguette fired her. Yet she stayed in the hospital for a bit more than 20 years, for 7,364 nights, though she said she couldn't stand the hospital food. From age 85 to well past 100, when most people need elaborate pillboxes marked with the days of the week, Huguette was remarkably healthy, requiring no daily medications other than vitamins.
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