Five years ago, Cripe was hired by a doctor and minority shareholder to try to change the company's direction.

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Cripe's book came out five months before Katrina hit New Orleans.

CNN: New Orleans hospital operator has checkered past

Cripe and Caplan say it has been Tenet's practice over the years to deny knowledge by management of allegations of wrongdoing by hospital doctors and staff.

CNN: New Orleans hospital operator has checkered past

Cripe believes that adoption will be faster than many industry executives assume but that it will be more chaotic than predicted by advocates of driverless technology.

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Fred Cripe, a former head of product operations at Allstate Insurance and now an industry advisor, is more sanguine about the prospects for insurers in the short term.

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Cripe even wrote a book, "Greed, Scandal and Wrongful Deaths at Tenet Healthcare Corporation, " detailing the various investigations and accusing Tenet of cutting costs, cutting care and breaking rules to increase profits.

CNN: New Orleans hospital operator has checkered past

"The evidence suggests that the corporate culture is so pervasive that they may well be incapable until there is a total housecleaning of those in management that are a part that corporate culture, " Cripe said.

CNN: New Orleans hospital operator has checkered past