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An update, now, on Monday's post about Peter DeMarco's

 incredible essay in the Boston Globe Magazine over the weekend

, in which he revealed that his wife, who died from an asthma attack, perished because the door to a hospital's emergency room was locked.

 that went viral. He didn't know the actual details of his wife's death at the time.

Four days after the Boston Globe ran DeMarco's story, the hospital has apologized.

“Our families have been waiting over two years to hear them accept even an ounce of responsibility for Laura’s death,” 

But he says he accepts the hospital's statement as sincere.

"If they are truly sincere about trying to apologize to our families, a more meaningful step would be to meet me face-to-face at the Globe offices as I’ve repeatedly suggested to them, so they can answer every question I have about how Laura, or anyone for that matter, could have been left to die 29 feet from their front door,” DeMarco says.

He said he wants to know every step the hospital has taken and also wants it shared with every other hospital in the country.

DeMarco's story made its way to network TV news on Wednesday evening.

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Peter DeMarco said he wants to know every step the hospital has taken and also wants it shared with every other hospital in the country so that what happened to his wife won't happen to anyone else.

Hospital apologizes for death of woman at locked ER’s door

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