The patient was a young black man named James Cornish. He had been rushed to Provident Hospital on the South Side with a knife wound in his chest from a barroom brawl. Dr. Daniel Hale Williams--a founder of Provident, which had opened two years previously as the city's first interracial hospital--knew Cornish was bleeding to death.
Sometimes its your bank that allows charges to go through on an expired card if they determine it to be a recurring service charge. This is why it's often not sufficient to request a new card number if you are trying to stop a company from continuing to charge you for a recurring service.
Once a credit card account becomes 180 days delinquent, the issuer is legally required to write the debt off of its books (i.e. charge-off the credit card). By that point, ownership of the debt will, in most cases, have been sold to a third-party collection agency. So-called charge-off timelines vary based on the type of debt in question (for example, personal loans charge-off at 120 days instead of 180).