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.
How to Avoid Swiping an Expired Credit Card. In most cases, a bank will issue a new credit card a month or so before your current one expires. This is something they usually do automatically, so you shouldnât have to worry about contacting them. Just activate the new one when it comes in and destroy the old one.