The hospital operator seemed to think that you might know where he was.

A hospital operator said no one in the public relations department was available to comment.

With the receiver propped up between her shoulder and the pillow, she got the hospital operator.

"You're a hard one to wake up," said the cheerful hospital operator.

He was released at 2:30 p.m. today, a hospital operator said.

Other hospital operators use annual bonuses, but Columbia is among the most aggressive.

That person's condition was not available last night, a hospital operator said.

Some of the largest hospital operators point to other explanations for their profit gains.

Then she tried the hospital operator, who answered after ten rings.

"We wish that were true," the hospital operator chuckled when I asked her about it later.