What she needed from me. Dear Patients and Friends, In 2004, my mother gave us six months. She had just retired as an SVP at Merrill Lynch. She knew nothing about medical billing. She told us she would hold things together until we could afford a real billing company. Twenty-two years later, she still drives from New Jersey to Exton twice a week and is part of an extraordinary team. She is 81. She is also the most independent woman I have ever known. Here is the part I am not