In an op-ed piece, Dr. Susan Hershberg Adelman, past president of both the Wayne County Medical Society and the Michigan State Medical Society, weighs in on the WSU-DMC dispute. She describes the situation as "a mutually destructive negotiation in which the choices are stark. Either they find a way to renew their contract or the DMC dies." She points out that, without the medical school affiliation, the DMC would lose the "cheap labor" of residents as well as major federal grants, most of its best doctors and the ability to recruit new doctors. Closure of the DMC also would negatively impact health care in the city, as well as employment. In strong language, the writer urges the governor and the mayor to "sit the obdurate parties down and butt heads. If they cannot agree on a new contract, one or both officials need to simply tell them what the agreement should be. Or heads should roll at the highest levels. To allow the principals in this dispute to blow a hole in the middle of this poor, suffering city would be a crime."